thomas miller is a resident fellow here at aei focusing on health policies a coauthor of "why obamacare is wrong for america," and author of "when obamacare fails," he's not been appointed to any positions in obama's health and human services. [laughter] he directs beyond repeal and replace project served the national advisory counsel for research and a staffer and senior analyst adviser for john mccain's presidential campaign in 2008. >> [inaudible] >> ha-ha, and so we're going to start with you david again, competition makes things better. health care is different, people say, as far as the two cliches that clash when it comes to this. in health care is it true and in which ways does competition make things better? >> so you know the quick comeback is i helped write a 400-page report talking about a variety of ways in which it could make things better and lots of ways in which the setup was not achieving that and so you know the question to ask yourself is gee what are the sources of market failure because in general competition is an effective mechanism for ensuring people get what t

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our third speaker is thomas miller. tong is the resident fellow at the american enterprise institute, formally is a scene health economist for the joint economic committee. a former trial attorney am a journalist and sports broadcaster, another renaissance person speaking with us at this conference, we learned that dan crippen, the head of the nga is a pilot among other things with the varied background. tom is co-author of why obamacare is wrong for america, and its apis beyond repeal and replace health reform project. we always at ahip tried to provide a broad array of perspective on each of our topics and you'll see even from our bias today that we are endeavoring to do that this morning. tom has testified before cards on issues including the uninsured, health care cost of medicare prescription drug benefits, health insurance tax credits, genetic information, social security and federal reinsurance of catastrophic events. he organized a number of hearings that focus on reforms and private health care markets such as

thomas miller is a resident fellow where he focuses on health policy and the co-author of why obamacare is wrong for america and author of when obamacare fails the playbook for market-based reform. he has not been appointed to any positions in obama's department of health and human service. he directs the project. he serves at the national advisory council for the agency of health care research and was a hill staffer and senior health policy analyst advisor for john mccain's presidential campaign in 2008. we are going to start i guess with you david. competition generally make things better. health care is different people say. those are the two clichÉs when it comes to the sewing health care is it true and in which waste is competition make things better? >> so the quick comeback is i wrote a 400 page report that talks talks about a friday of ways in which it could make things better and lots of ways in which the setup was not actually achieving that and so the question to ask yourself are what are the sources of market failure because in general the competition has been a very effecti