Media Coverage of FREOPP

Many of the most important media institutions in the English language have covered FREOPP’s scholars and research, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, Newsweek, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and the BBC. The above graphic features a representative, though not exhaustive, list.

For interview requests or other press inquiries, please contact Bobby Sherwood, Director of External Affairs, at inquiries@freopp.org or (202) 800–4780.

On FREOPP as an institution

The Washington Post, September 30, 2016: “There are plenty of think tanks devoted to free markets, and some…devoted squarely to issues of opportunity and inequality in the U.S. economy. The FREOPP crew, though, surveyed the policy landscape and saw no groups that blended the two: a grounding in market principles, but a focus on harnessing them — and bending them, when needed — to aid Americans struggling in the country’s transition to an information economy.”

The Atlantic, November 2016: “In September, [Avik Roy and others] launched a new think tank, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, which aims to promote policies that will help people with below-median incomes or net worth.”

On FREOPP’s COVID-19 research & commentary

The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2020: “Google parent Alphabet’s YouTube division seems to have blocked a White House medical adviser’s analysis because it conflicts with the flawed pronouncements of a U.N. bureaucracy. Avik Roy, President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, reported Sunday on Twitter that YouTube ‘just took down a June 23 interview that Scott Atlas’ did with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.”

The Washington Post, August 31, 2020: “‘Epidemiology is not the only discipline that matters for public policy here. That is a fundamentally wrong way to think about this whole situation,’ said Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a think tank that researches market-based solutions to help low-income Americans. ‘You have to think about what are the costs of lockdowns, what are the trade-offs, and those are fundamentally subjective judgments policymakers have to make.’”

The Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2020: “Nursing homes account for 0.6% of the population but 45% of Covid fatalities, says the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a free market think tank. Better isolating those residents would have saved many lives at little economic cost, it says.”

The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2020: “Avik Roy notes that ‘those under the age of 25 are at significantly lower risk of death from COVID-19 than of the flu.’ For teachers approaching middle age, there are much bigger risks.”

Vox, July 14, 2020: Estimates vary, but analysts Gregg Girvan and Avik Roy found that as of June 29, 50,779 of the 113,135 US deaths from Covid-19 (or 45 percent) were deaths of residents of nursing or long-term care facilities. Their numbers suggest that about 2.5 percent of all nursing home residents have been killed by the disease; in New Jersey, which is particularly hard hit, the share is over 11 percent.

Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2020: “At nursing homes and assisted living facilities, which an analysis by the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity found account for 45% of coronavirus deaths in the U.S., testing employees is mandatory for many. But the cost quickly adds up.”

BBC News, July 10, 2020: “Elder care homes across the US have been hard-hit by the virus — though the true extent of the severity remains unclear, months in…An analysis by the non-partisan Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity found 45% of US Covid-19 deaths came from nursing homes — a group that makes up just 0.6% of the US population.”

Axios, July 2, 2020: “Nursing homes have been the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, prompting more urgent discussions about alternative housing situations for elderly Americans. Why it matters: Deaths in nursing homes and residential care facilities account for 45% of COVID-19 related deaths, per the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”

Bloomberg Law, June 10, 2020: “Witness Avik Roy, president of [the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, said that] COVID-19 from a health standpoint was primarily a danger to the elderly and people who already had health problems. The most sustainable way to reopen the economy, a benefit to all workers, is to protect people at risk from Covid-19 and let low-risk individuals return to school and work, Roy said.”

Politico, June 4, 2020: “It makes it clear that all along there were trade-offs between details of lockdowns and social distancing and other factors that the experts previously discounted and have now decided to reconsider and rebalance,” said Jeffrey Flier.

Time, May 28, 2020: “Roughly 42% of U.S. coronavirus deaths have occurred in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, according to a May 22 analysis from the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”

USA Today, May 10, 2020: Avik Roy, president of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, said he hopes “the next round of [COVID-19 relief] funds is more closely targeted to the hospitals that are suffering because they’re doing the right things,” not “giant regional hospital monopolies with high prices and strong balance sheets.”

The Washington Post, May 5, 2020: “The search for a vaccine is a moonshot, and it may work. After all, America did put a man on the moon. But we can’t keep the economy in lockdown while we wait. The purpose of the lockdown was not to prevent every American from getting COVID-19, Avik Roy says, but to prevent our health-care system from being overwhelmed. ‘We’ve done that,” he says. “It’s time to stop annihilating the economy.’”

The Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2020: “Let me commend a plan by Avik Roy and his colleagues at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, which they expressly call a pessimism plan: A vaccine won’t be developed. An effective treatment won’t soon materialize. Universal testing will not quickly scale up. Infection won’t be found to confer lasting immunity. We can hope for success in these areas but betting our national survival on hitting a hole-in-one is not a strategy.”

The New York Times, April 27, 2020: “The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity…this month released a plan to quickly restart much of the economy. It includes reopening schools while carrying out an aggressive system of tracing the contacts of Americans who are infected with the virus and quarantining vulnerable groups and people potentially exposed to the virus. Mr. Roy said in an interview that the plan was motivated in part by research suggesting that prolonged school closures disproportionately hurt nonwhite and low-income children, who are less likely to have access to educational materials at home that allow them to keep up with more affluent peers. ‘The last thing we need at a time of rising inequality is to widen that inequality for our children,’ Mr. Roy said. ‘Upper-income parents are the ones most able to improve educational opportunities for their children. Lower-income parents are not.’

Politico, April 30, 2020: “‘Sweden has single-payer health care, but so does Italy, and Italy’s system crashed,’ said Avik Roy, a health care policy adviser to Mitt Romney and Rick Perry’s presidential campaigns, and the president of Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a think tank based out of Texas. ‘The countries that have done well or poorly [with COVID-19], if you look at it across what kind of health care system they have, there’s zero correlation.’”

Other notable mentions,

Fortune, May 31, 2024: “With Gen Z on track to become the most educated generation in history, those looking to stand out amid the seas of college graduates may be tempted to to eye a master’s degree — but be warned, it’s not the golden ticket to big paychecks and guaranteed success one might imagine.”

CNBC, May 30, 2024: “However, not all master’s degrees pay off. In fact, fewer than 60% of master’s degree programs deliver a positive return on investment, according to a recent study by The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”

What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack podcast, May 30, 2024: Avik Roy joins Peter to discuss why Trump is supporting Bitcoin & crypto, the power of the growing Bitcoin voter base, and the coming fight with regulators.

Forbes, May 24, 2024: “A recent analysis by the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) came to the same conclusion: “choice of major explains more of the variation in ROI [return-on-investment] than choice of college.” Strikingly, Strada and FREOPP had a similar sequence of majors, from highest return to lowest.”

Fortune, May 14, 2024: “For many aspiring students, the decision to attend college comes with scary caveats, like years of unaffordable debt. Now there’s another thing to fear: Even if having a degree leads to higher earning potential down the line, a new analysis says about 30% of students won’t earn enough money to offset the price of school.”

The Hill, May 12, 2024: “While ROI should not be the only consideration for students approaching the college decision, the ROI estimates presented in this report can help students and their families make better choices regarding higher education,” study author Preston Cooper wrote.”

Reason, May 10, 2024: “The paper, by Senior Fellow Preston Cooper, examined data from over 50,000 degree and certificate programs at thousands of American colleges and universities. Cooper’s analysis looked at how much students were earning immediately after graduation, as well as how much they were making 10 years later. The paper also took into account a student’s chance of dropping out when calculating a degree program’s ROI.”

The New York Post, May 5, 2024: “Among the many ways New York is still paying for the erratic-but-forceful leadership of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the soaring expense and growing unreliability of the electric grid likely tops the list……….And while Cuomo’s team had predicted the shutdown would add less than $50 a year to electric bills, the jump proved closer to $500, notes a new report from The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”

The Washington Post, April 12, 2024: “In their April 9 op-ed, “Big Pharma’s high prices don’t drive innovation,” Avik Roy and Gregg Girvan argued that Medicare’s new authority to demand lower prices from drug manufacturers will not result in the development and approval of fewer new drugs. Because most biotech innovation comes from smaller firms, they wrote, reducing revenue to Big Pharma will have minimal impact on drug creation.”

C-SPAN Washington Journal, April 10, 2024: Preston Cooper joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss President Biden’s latest plan to eliminate student loans.

The Bulwark, March 26, 2024: “Just kidding! I’m not a diligent reader of every NBER working paper. But Avik Roy, head of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, seemingly is; fortunately, he’s also on Twitter. So that’s where I encountered this interesting paper, titled “The Cost of Money is Part of the Cost of Living: New Evidence on the Consumer Sentiment Anomaly.”

The College Fix, March 12, 2024: “A scholar at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity who has done research on the factors behind the rising cost of higher education said the university has “an unusually high number of administrators.”

“Schools like UC Berkeley typically have around 160 non-instructional staff per 1000 students, according to my research at FREOPP,” Preston Cooper told The Fix. “If Berkeley’s ratio is well above 200, that suggests they have an unusually high number of administrators relative to the size of their student body.”

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 11, 2024: “Reparations, he suggested, are appropriate for very specific instances of harm and should be considered on a case-by-case basis rather than by making blanket payments to large populations. The cost of the proposed California payments, which are twice the size of the state’s annual budget, were “performative” and shouldn’t be given serious consideration, says Tanner, who is now a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”

Washington Examiner, March 9, 2024: “Health policy expert Avik Roy of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity noted on March 1 that “United and Humana have increased their market share from 33% in 2010 to 47% today,” and he said the Biden rule would hasten this detrimental consolidation. Thus, big government favors big business over smaller ones that might fit patients’ individual needs better.”

The Daily Signal, February 14, 2024: As higher education scholar Preston Cooper notes, the Department of Education was three months behind schedule with the launch, introduced an accounting error that undercounted the cost of student aid by $2 billion, and made the form available for as short as 30 minutes per day, during which time “students reported constant glitches and lockouts.”

The American Conservative, February 13, 2024: “For the Americans most affected by inflation, those already struggling to make ends meet, it offers a crucial way to protect their savings and preserve their self-sufficiency,” explained FREOPP, the organization founded by the leading “Freedom Conservative” Avik Roy. Enthusiasm for Bitcoin among the “America First” crowd is harder to understand. How, exactly, is Bitcoin “America First”?

The Dispatch, February 9, 2024: “Research conducted by Preston Cooper, an economist and friend, shows that a large number of programs of study are not “paying off” for graduates. Surveying nearly 30,000 bachelor degree programs, he found that 28 percent of programs left students worse off economically than when they started, generating negative returns on investment.”

USA Today, January 29, 2024: “Preston Cooper, a higher education researcher at FREOPP, said the biggest losers under the law would be elite nonprofit schools.”

“These places are very heavily reliant on the student loan program,” he said. “The end goal of this is not necessarily to reward or punish different institutions but to change the incentives.”

Minding The Campus, January 29, 2024: “The share of taxpayer losses that a college would need to reimburse would depend on several factors, with lower-cost and high-value-adding colleges — as measured by graduates’ earnings relative to what they paid in tuition — paying a lower share than high-cost and low-value-adding colleges. Preston Cooper has run the numbers on some of this, and I’ll be exploring these policies in these pages over the coming months as well.”

Community College Daily, January 11, 2024: “According to an analysis by Preston Cooper of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, the community college sector would fare best under this scenario, netting $1.7 billion in additional funds after subtracting out the loan repayment penalties. Private, non-profit colleges fare the worst.”

Reason, January 5, 2024: “As policy scholar Michael Tanner has noted, government policies that create welfare benefit cliffs “act as poverty traps, deterring work effort or putting a low ceiling on how much those families can increase their standard of living.” This can be true of welfare programs in general, which disincentivize work and compete with better-targeted and better-administered private charity and community support programs.”

The Federalist, December 27, 2023: “A drug’s real value can only be determined compared to the current standard of care, said Gregg Girvan, a Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity scholar. Subjects in the Zurzuvae trial were given either a drug or placebo and stratified based on whether the participant was also taking an antidepressant at the time of the study.”

Black Enterprise, December 20, 2023: “In a June article, Freopp.org’s research fellow Preston Cooper explained that jobs which in the past had been open to high school graduates now require a bachelor’s degree.”

Inside Higher Ed, December 18, 2023: “Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a market-friendly think tank, said the different proposals could lead to “substantial” amounts of relief for borrowers, even if the plan looks narrower on paper. He added that the more targeted approach could be a recognition that the broad-based strategy isn’t politically or legally viable.”

PR Weekly, December 6, 2023: “Roy, who also serves as a policy editor at Forbes, supported that the evidence at the time to keep schools open, as exhibited in other countries, was overwhelming. The “conventional wisdom” now, he said, is that the country went too far in closing schools in terms of the effects of children’s mental health and the educational impacts of learning loss.”

CNN.com, November 30, 2023, “From scholars like Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity President Avik Roy to Ed Dolan of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian-rooted think tank in Washington, DC, the conversation has decidedly shifted from repealing Obamacare to figuring out what to do next. The GOP should welcome that pivot.”

Housing for Huntsvillians podcast with November 29, 2023: “Tanner is a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP), a non-profit think tank focused on expanding economic opportunity to those who least have it. In his more than 30 years studying public policy, Mike has testified before Congress ten times, written 11 books, and published dozens of reports, studies, and articles for outlets like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.”

C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, November 22, 2023: “Michael Tanner of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity talked about his research on how the federal government should redefine poverty.”

Business Insider, October 25, 2023: “For students who graduate on time, the median bachelor’s degree has a net ROI of $306,000, according to Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. Some degrees are worth millions of dollars, while others have no net financial value at all.”

Washington Post Live on X, October 19, 2023: Avik Roy says “People do care about having the economic security that comes with having insurance that works. That’s a really important policy goal that Republicans were mistaken in avoiding.”

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, October 18, 2023: “Preston Cooper, senior fellow of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, noted that measuring value in higher education can be complicated even from a financial standpoint since it’s tough to determine what a student would be able to make if they had not gone to college.”

Bloomberg, October 11, 2023: “Still, a persistent question lingers: Do you need to go to business school to become an entrepreneur? “If you do have the ability to get admitted into one of these very elite programs, that’s often going to be a positive financial proposition for you,” says Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, of top-ranked MBA programs.”

Reason, October 2023 issue: “As Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, puts it, “You don’t make money by stripping a company of its assets and selling them to the ground.” While not every attempt will be successful, the goal of private equity is to create value by finding mismanaged businesses and turning them around.”

Higher Ed Dive, September 29, 2023: “High interest rates may mean that more borrowers opt for the new SAVE plan over the standard repayment scheme, said Preston Cooper, senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a right-leaning think tank.”

Hub Dialogues podcast with Sean Speer, September 21, 2023: “This episode of Hub Dialogues features Avik Roy, the founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a U.S.-based public policy think tank, about the recently released Freedom Conservative Statement and new ideological tensions with American conservatism.”

RealClearHealth, September 15, 2023: “This is welcome news but no substitute for national policy solutions, such as those detailed by Gregg Girvan and Avik Roy of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, to enable market forces to cut the cost of specialty drugs.”

Vox, September 11, 2023: “The obstacles for vouchers seemed so daunting that, in 2005, Dan Lips, an education policy expert at the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, proposed a new spin on the policy: education savings accounts (ESAs). Now, instead of a voucher coupon that would be given directly to a private school, parents would get an account in which actual money would be deposited, and the money could also be spent on tutoring, homeschooling, or other education-related expenses.”

U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Labor & Pensions, September 5, 2023: “The Biden administration’s unilateral expansion of income-driven repayment plans could end up costing more than the one-time loan cancellation scheme which the Supreme Court struck down as an unlawful overextension of the president’s authority. Worse, the IDR expansion will encourage colleges to raise tuition and make debt a more central feature of the higher education finance system. IDR has a critical, limited role as safety net, but the Biden administration is turning it into just another student loan giveaway,” said Preston Cooper, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”

Washington Examiner, August 30, 2023: For example, as higher education scholar Preston Cooper points out , 33% of secretaries hold a bachelor’s degree today, compared to just 9% in 1990. More occupations require licensure post-high school or even post-baccalaureate, which lengthens the time people need to be in school before they can work, even when the requirements of the positions are no more technical and the outcomes no higher quality than they were decades ago.

C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, August 29, 2023: “Michael Tanner talked about his research on expanding economic opportunity, not reparations, to reduce racial economic disparities in the U.S.”

Inside Higher Education, August 24, 2023: “It’s not necessarily an issue that can be swept under the rug, even if mass loan forgiveness is not the right remedy,” said Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a market-friendly think tank. “While I don’t agree with the policy prescription of mass student loan forgiveness, I do think that these conversations can be a catalyst for thinking about broader reforms to the student loan system and how we can change the program to make it better work for students and taxpayers.”

Slow Boring with Matthew Yglesias, August 14, 2023: “I’ve been following recent debates between proponents of national conservatism and freedom conservatism (see Michael Schaffer for an overview or Oren Cass and Avik Roy debating it on a podcast) with interest but also frustration.”

C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, August 13, 2023: “Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, talked about his advocacy of “freedom conservatism,” which was developed by a group of various conservative writers, scholars, and activists as a way to counter the direction of the current conservative movement in the U.S.”

The Federalist Radio Hour podcast, August 11, 2023: “Michael Tanner, author and a senior fellow at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to explain why divisive, race-based reparation policies won’t fix disparities and explore the reforms that could provide long-lasting solutions for all Americans.”

American Compass’s Critics Corner podcast, August 9, 2023: “On this episode of Critics Corner, Oren Cass is joined by FREOPP president Avik Roy, who convened the recent Freedom Conservatism Statement of Principles. They discuss the current state of the conservative movement, the purpose of the statement, and how the “old right” and the “new right” differ on issues like trade, taxes, education, and more.”

The American Spectator, August 2, 2023: “Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, along with John Hood of the Pope Foundation, assembled 122 conservative activists, journalists, and policy professionals to pledge the affirmation of “freedom” in the conservative movement and the principles that define it.”

The Washington Post, July 31, 2023: “DeSantis’ economic plan is much more intellectually coherent than Trump’s. … He’s trying to blend the nationalists and the free marketers” in the GOP, said Avik Roy, a former policy adviser to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) who is now president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a D.C.-based think tank. “You see here a more advanced intellectual framework compared to what Trump ran on in 2016.”

Politico, July 28, 2023: “You have people just graduated from college now, people starting jobs on Capitol Hill, people staffing various policymakers, who are in their mid-twenties and who literally have no experience or awareness of a time before Trump,” Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and one of the organizers of the statement, told me this week.”

National Review, July 19, 2023: “Courtesy of Avik Roy and Michael Brendan Dougherty, we now have dueling op-eds about dueling manifestos. Yet it remains a bit obscure whose honor we are fighting over.”

ABA Journal, July 17, 2023: “Preston Cooper, a senior fellow in higher education policy with the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, told the Washington Post that the Biden administration has fairly broad authority to set the terms of income-driven repayment plans.”

The Washington Post, July 14, 2023: “Preston Cooper, a senior fellow in higher education policy with the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, said the administration has fairly broad authority under the law to set the terms of income-driven repayment plans. But he suggested that some might argue that even if technically legal, Friday’s announcement goes far beyond what Congress intended. “There might be a case against it on those grounds,” said Cooper, who opposed Biden’s original debt-relief plan.”

Profectus, July 14, 2023: “The following is an interview conducted by Archbridge Director of Programs Ben Wilterdink with Preston Cooper, a research fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP). We discuss his research on higher education policy and his new report, How Unnecessary College Degree Requirements Hurt The Working Class.”

Bloomberg, July 3, 2023: “No way SCOTUS will go for any of those ‘remaining legal routes,’” predicts Preston Cooper, a senior fellow at the conservative Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. “Time for Democrats to come to the table on actual student loan reform instead of stringing borrowers along.”

Vox, August 27, 2020: “‘There would be big changes to the Medicaid program under Westerman’s plan, with states having the option to adopt spending caps and move the Medicaid expansion population onto the private insurance markets. It’s an alternative form of the individual market, with important technical differences,’ Avik Roy, president of the free market Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and an adviser on the Westerman bill, told me.”

The Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2020: “Preston Cooper, a visiting fellow at the center-right Foundation for Research on Economic Opportunity, said that part of the plan would cost $370 billion, more than what the government spent on stimulus checks as part of the Cares Act.”

Politico, June 10, 2020: “[Jonathan] Blanks observed that it was la’rgely a phenomenon of how Republicans, a largely white demographic, interacted with police. ‘There’s this really huge disconnect between the law-and-order folks who think of police officers as people who come to help and try and keep the road safe, as opposed to people who are trying to prevent crime by harassing people who happen to look different than they do,’ he said.”

Variety, June 5, 2020: “In 80 informative minutes, this documentary, [Juice: How Electricity Explains the World], delves into the way inequality, women’s rights and climate change are impacted by questions of access to electricity.”

BBC News Mundo, June 4, 2020: “Los expertos están de acuerdo en que procesar penalmente a un policía es un asunto ‘plagado de dificultades’. ‘Hay varias razones por las que acusar y procesar a un policía es extremadamente difícil en Estados Unidos’, le explica a BBC Mundo, Jonathan Blanks, experto en justicia criminal e investigador en The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP), un centro de estudios en Washington, DC. ‘Quizás la razón principal es que la Corte Suprema ha interpretado nuestra Constitución de manera que permite a los oficiales utilizar cierta cantidad de fuerza en el transcurso de sus labores’.”

The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2020: “‘The vast disparity between the rich and the poor’ in the world is defined, [Robert Bryce] proposes, ‘by the disparity between those who have electricity and those who scrape by on small quantities of juice or none at all.’ There is a nearly direct relationship between reliable electricity and high living standards, Mr. Bryce tells us…Universal, affordable kilowatts should be a cause for the 21st century in the same way that rural electrification was a cause of the young Lyndon Johnson…[Bryce] goes on to show in persuasive detail that ‘there is simply no way to slash global carbon-dioxide emissions without big increases in our use of nuclear energy.’”

Chicago Tribune, March 20, 2020: “Overcharging healthy people for insurance to give sick people a better deal never was going to be sustainable, said Avik Roy, who served as a health care adviser to former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and founded the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”

El Nuevo Dia, March 17, 2020: “A través de una columna de opinión…Avik Roy, hizo un llamado para reformar el código de impuestos de Puerto Rico, con tal de que el Congreso impulse la manufactura de ingredientes farmacéuticos a nivel local. En el escrito, Roy aboga específicamente por la restauración parcial de la Sección 936 del Código de Rentas Internas. Por décadas, la Sección 936 ayudó a sostener la industria de manufactura de fármacos en Puerto Rico, proveyendo atractivos incentivos contributivos corporativos a empresas establecidas en la isla.”

Politico, October 16, 2018: “Inside Alex Azar’s first 90 days—the HHS secretary’s calendars were obtained by…a watchdog group. Azar was scheduled to make calls on March 7 to ‘health care thought leaders,’ a list that included…Avik Roy.”

NPR, October 23, 2017: “The president some weeks ago cut off subsidies for insurance companies which helped to keep down insurance premiums. That is one of the factors driving the latest round of insurance premium increases. We get one view of all of this from Avik Roy, a health policy analyst and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.”