Brian Blase, Ph.D., is the President of Paragon Health Institute. Brian was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House’s National Economic Council (NEC) from 2017-2019, where he coordinated the development and execution of numerous health policies and advised the President, NEC director, and senior officials. After leaving the White House, Brian founded Blase Policy Strategies and served as its CEO.
Brian Blase Quoted in The Washington Post – June 29, 2024
On June 29, 2024, Paragon’s President Brian Blase, and our data brief on Obamacare fruand, were referenced in The Washington Post.
From the article:
The allegations center on a report from the Paragon Health Institute, a conservative think tank, which concluded that as many as 5 million Americans may be wrongly receiving ACA insurance subsidies. The Paragon report compared census estimates on the number of Americans potentially eligible for such subsidies against the level of ACA enrollment.
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The Paragon report argues that individual enrollees, insurance brokers and private health insurers all have financial incentives to take advantage of those subsidies, and that no one has bothered to closely examine the reasons behind the spike in the subsidies’ use.
“It’s stunning how little has been done to date looking at these issues,” Brian Blase, Paragon’s president and a former Trump White House health policy official, said in an interview.
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