LOWN26: Competing policy ideas for affordability and the search for common ground

Every speaker on this panel arrives with a worldview shaped by a distinct place on the political spectrum, from free-market right to progressive left, and each has watched that worldview collide with political reality. This panel cuts to the chase: which elements of these frameworks survive first contact with the real world, and where do the Venn diagrams overlap? As working families face impossible choices between care and financial survival, finding common ground isn’t a thought experiment, it’s a moral imperative. Erin C. Fuse Brown, JD, Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University School of Public Health (Moderator) Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute Adam Gaffney, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Past-President, Physicians for a National Health Program Hayden Rooke-Ley, JD, Senior Fellow, Brown University School of Public Health Avik Roy, MD, Co-Founder and Chairman, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity