Michael F. Cannon

Michael F. Cannon is an American economist and health policy scholar who directs health policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. He gained his widest prominence as a critic of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and as the co-author, with law professor Jonathan H. Adler, of the legal argument that the law did not authorize premium tax credits in states that use the federal Exchange, HealthCare.gov. That argument underlay Halbig v. Burwell and King v. Burwell; the Supreme Court rejected it 6–3 in 2015. Modern Healthcare called him "the intellectual father" of King v. Burwell.

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