Greg Scandlen, Senior Fellow National Center for Policy Analysis
Greg Scandlen is a Senior Fellow in Health Policy. In this role, Mr. Scandlen writes studies and analyses on health policy issues, as well as opinion columns for such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, and the Washington Times among others. He also publishes a weekly health policy newsletter called Washington Weekly, which summarizes and critiques the important movements in national health policy.
In addition to his health policy analysis activities, Mr. Scandlen helps represent the NCPA on health policy issues on Capitol Hill, including providing testimony before health care committees, and serves as a liaison to other think tanks, trade groups and policy organizations.
Prior to joining NCPA he was a fellow in health policy at the Cato Institute and President of the Health Benefits Group, a consulting firm in Frederick, Maryland. The firm helped businesses set up medical savings account programs and published two newsletters on free market health care reform.
Mr. Scandlen was the founder and CEO for five years of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, a trade association of health insurance companies, where he worked to get MSAs enacted into law, encouraged reform of the small group and individual insurance markets, and worked on providing equal tax treatment for all health insurance purchasers.
He was publisher of the Health Benefits Letter and worked in the Blue Cross Blue Shield system for 12 years, most recently as director of state research for the national association.
He is considered an expert in medical savings accounts, insurance regulation and reform, employee benefits and ERISA, Medicare reform, and the uninsured. He has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, CNN, PBS, and C-SPAN.
Upcoming and recent articles and papers include:
Book Review of "Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System," Medical Sentinal, Spring 2001.
