The Cure for Your Bottom Line

Mr. Greg Scandlen

Director, Consumers for Health Care Choices
312-377-4000
greg@chcchoices.org

19 South LaSalle Street
Suite 903
Chicago, IL 60603
Greg Scandlen is a senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and founder and director of Consumers for Health Care Choices, a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization aimed at empowering consumers in the health care system. In April 2008, Heartland and Consumers for Health Care Choices merged, with CHCC becoming a program of The Heartland Institute.

Scandlen is an accomplished writer, researcher, and public speaker. He is considered one of the nation’s experts on health care financing, insurance regulation, and employee benefits. He testifies frequently before Congress and appears on such television shows as the O’Reilly Factor, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, and CNN.  Scandlen gives three dozen speeches a year to organizations representing employers and labor, hospitals and physicians, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies.

He has published many papers on topics such as health care costs, insurance reform, employee benefits, individual insurance programs, HSAs and HRAs, and every aspect of consumer-driven health care.
Scandlen has worked for several Washington-based think tanks, including the Cato Institute, National Center for Policy Analysis, and Galen Institute. He was president of the Health Benefits Group, a benefits consulting firm, and founder and executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, a trade association of insurance companies.. He also spent 12 years in the Blue Cross Blue Shield system, most recently as director of state research at the national association.

Roy Ramthun

President, HSA Consulting Services

Roy Ramthun is President of HSA Consulting Services, a health care consulting practice specializing in Health Savings Accounts and consumer-driven health care issues. Prior to forming his consulting practice, Mr. Ramthun was the Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House.

As a member of the National Economic Council staff, Mr. Ramthun was the senior health policy advisor to President George W. Bush regarding health care issues involving the Internal Revenue Code (primarily Health Savings Accounts), Medicare, Medicaid, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program

Before joining the President’s staff, Mr. Ramthun was the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for health initiatives.  In this role, he led Treasury’s implementation of Health Savings Accounts after they were enacted into law in December, 2003.

Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Ramthun held a variety of positions during his eight-year tenure at Humana Inc., one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

From 1990-1995, Mr. Ramthun was a health care analyst with the Republican Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.  Mr. Ramthun began his career in Federal service in 1987 as a Presidential Management Intern (PMI).

Mr. Ramthun holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science Degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).