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  <title>160 – FreeCons with Avik Roy</title>
  <description>The great fusionist project of ordered liberty advocated by Frank Meyer, William F. Buckley, and M. Stanton Evans is defended and affirmed today by a group calling themselves Freedom Conservatives, or FreeCons.&amp;amp;nbsp; And as most groups of conservatives are wont to do, they have drafted a  Statement of Principles outlining what they hope to affirm.&amp;amp;nbsp; Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is a proud signatory on this statement and welcomes in this episode one of the two originators of the Statement, Avik Roy, for a wide-ranging discussion on fusionism, how FreeCons may compare and contrast with NatCons, the need for conservatism to grapple with issues of equality, and much more. &amp;amp;nbsp; About Avik Roy Excerpts from https://bipartisanpolicy.org/person/avik-roy/ &amp;amp;nbsp; Avik Roy is the President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP.org), a non-partisan, non-profit think tank that conducts original research on expanding opportunity to those who least have it. &amp;amp;nbsp;Roy’s work has been praised widely on both the right and the left.&amp;amp;nbsp;National Review&amp;amp;nbsp;has called him one of the nation’s “sharpest policy minds,” while the&amp;amp;nbsp;New York Times’ Paul Krugman described him as man of “personal and moral courage.” &amp;amp;nbsp; Roy has advised three presidential candidates on policy, including Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney.&amp;amp;nbsp; Roy also serves as the Opinion Editor at&amp;amp;nbsp;Forbes, where he writes on politics and policy, and manages The Apothecary, the influential&amp;amp;nbsp;Forbes&amp;amp;nbsp;blog on health care policy and entitlement reform.&amp;amp;nbsp; [He] is the author of&amp;amp;nbsp;How Medicaid Fails the Poor, published by Encounter Books in 2013, and&amp;amp;nbsp;Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency, a second edition of which was published in 2016 by FREOPP. &amp;amp;nbsp;He serves on the advisory board of the National Institute for Health Care Management, is a Senior Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center, and co-chaired the Fixing Veterans Health Care Policy Taskforce. &amp;amp;nbsp; Roy’s writing has also appeared in The&amp;amp;nbsp;Wall Street Journal, The&amp;amp;nbsp;New York Times, The&amp;amp;nbsp;Washington Post,&amp;amp;nbsp;USA Today,&amp;amp;nbsp;The Atlantic,&amp;amp;nbsp;National Review,&amp;amp;nbsp;The Weekly Standard, and&amp;amp;nbsp;National Affairs, among other publications.&amp;amp;nbsp; He is a frequent guest on television news programs, including appearances on Fox News, Fox Business, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, CBS, PBS, and HBO. &amp;amp;nbsp; From 2011 to 2016, Roy served as a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where he conducted research on the Affordable Care Act, entitlement reform, universal coverage, international health systems, and FDA policy. &amp;amp;nbsp;Previously, he served as an analyst and portfolio manager at Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan, and other firms. &amp;amp;nbsp; Roy was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied molecular biology, and the Yale University School of Medicine.&amp;amp;nbsp; You can follow Roy on Twitter @Avik &amp;amp;nbsp; </description>
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