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Mark Your Calendars, Kansas City and St. Louis: Michael Cannon is Coming to Town

By Patrick Ishmael Filed March 20, 2015 Source Show-Me Institute

Michael Cannon is the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and is one of the most prominent figures in the free market movement today. Cannon's national influence extends to a wide swath of health care issues, but lately it's his work focusing on the health insurance subsidies of Obamacare that has been most prominent. With Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan Adler, in 2013 Cannon co-wrote "Taxation Without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits under the PPACA."

If that topic sounds strangely familiar to you, fear not; it is indeed the topic at the center of the King v. Burwell case, which is currently before the Supreme Court. Cannon has been instrumental in not only providing the research that undergirds the plaintiffs' case, but he has also been instrumental in delivering clear, concise and compelling explanations of what the government did with these subsidies (and why it matters) to audiences across the country.

I hope you'll be able to join us, either in Kansas City on March 25 at 5:30 pm at the Kansas City Club, or in St. Louis on March 26 at 5:30 pm at Saint Louis University. Both promise to be excellent events.

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