Michael Ramlet

Michael Ramlet is the Director of Healthcare Policy at the American Action Forum, a Washington DC based policy institute focused on providing Congress and the nation’s governors with real-time policy analysis and market-oriented policy solutions. He launched the Forum’s first public policy initiative, Operation Healthcare Choice, which is focused on promoting medical innovation, value-based medical care, and higher quality health insurance that expands consumer choice.

Ramlet is also the founder and editor of The Morning Consult, a non-partisan daily healthcare industry and public policy briefing delivered via email each morning at 9am (ET). The Consult covers more than 250 healthcare news articles, op-eds, and medical journals. Subscribers include more than 37 academic programs, 250 economists, 320 Capitol Hill policy advisors, and 2200 industry executives. The Consult has become a go-to knowledge management source for leading healthcare consulting firms like McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and the Advisory Board Company.

Ramlet regularly authors white papers, op-eds, and congressional testimony covering the payer, provider, and medical innovation landscape. His work has appeared in Health Affairs, Bloomberg News, Kaiser Health News, Politico, Modern Healthcare and has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. He has also provided national healthcare commentary on Fox News.

Prior to joining the American Action Forum, Michael worked in the healthcare consulting industry on projects for major hospital chains and Fortune 500 healthcare clients.