On September 10, 2024, Paragon’s Theo Merkel was quoted in The Washington Post.
From the article:
“It really points to her lack of seriousness when it comes to health-care policy,” said Theo Merkel, a senior research fellow at the Paragon Health Institute and the Manhattan Institute, who co-wrote the new analysis with Stephen T. Parente, a finance professor at the University of Minnesota. Both men served as policy officials in the Trump administration.
“The fact that she just willy-nilly embraced such a radical proposal, and then cast it aside the next time around … if she viewed it in her interest, she could absolutely grab something like this again,” Merkel said.