Prior to his service with the NCPA, Strayer was Legislative Consultant with the firm Taylor, Thiemann & Aitken located in Alexandria, Virginia. From 1992 until 1997, Strayer was Director of Federal Affairs for the Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI).

While at CAHI, Strayer was regarded as the lead lobbyist for the health insurance industry on free market health reform initiatives including Medical Savings Accounts, tax equity, small group reform, and state-based risk pools as an alternative to guaranteed issue. After making over 200 Hill visits to Senators and Congressmen in just a few months, The Washington Post in an August 1992 profile of Strayer bestowed upon him the title of "the affable arch-enemy of national health insurance."

The son and grandson of family physicians, Strayer left Michigan after graduating from Albion College and came to Washington, D.C. in 1976 with Congressman-Elect David Stockman, whose campaign for Congress Strayer managed. Strayer served as Stockman's Personal Assistant and office manager until 1980 when he returned to Michigan to serve as the Press Secretary for the Republican Caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives, a position he held until 1986.

In early 1986, Strayer returned to Washington to represent the National Association of Convenience Stores on Capitol Hill. While at NACS, Strayer covered a wide range of issues including labor laws, employee testing, the minimum wage, immigration, ERISA, COBRA, petroleum marketing, excise taxes on gasoline, tobacco and alcohol, Superfund and leaking underground storage tanks, Daylight Savings Time extension, workplace safety and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Jack Strayer is a nationally recognized expert on free market health reforms and he has appeared on CNN Prime Time News as a health reform commentator; CNBC, C-SPAN, PBS' Nightly Business Report, Fox Morning News, National Empowerment Television, News Talk Television and the nationally syndicated Suzanne Somers Show.

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