Michael Tanner Biography
Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on health care reform, social welfare policy, and Social Security. His most recent book, Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution (2007), chronicles the demise of the Republican party as it has shifted away from its limited government roots and warns that reform is necessary to avoid continual electoral defeat.
Under Michael Tanner's direction, Cato launched the Project on Social Security Choice, which is widely considered the leading impetus for transforming the soon-to-be-bankrupt system into a private savings program. Time Magazine calls Tanner, "one of the architects of the private accounts movement," and Congressional Quarterly named him one of the nation's five most influential experts on Social Security.
His other books include, Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It (Second Edition, 2007), The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society (2003), and A New Deal for Social Security (1998). Tanner's writings have appeared in nearly every major American newspaper, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. A prolific writer and frequent guest lecturer, Michael Tanner appears regularly on network and cable news programs. Previously, Tanner served as director of research of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and as legislative director for the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Michael Tanner Topics
- Will Obama Raise Middle-Class Taxes to Fund Health Care?
- Reforming Health Care
- The Poverty Of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society
- Social Security and Its Discontents
- Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
- Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It
- Social Security
- KidSave: Real Problem, Wrong Solution