معرفی
Daniel Heil is a Policy Fellow (equivalent to Research Fellow) at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where his work concentrates on federal budget policy, tax policy, health-care reform, and antipoverty programs. He is an active member of the Healthcare Policy Working Group and the Fiscal Policy Initiative, and he served as Governor Jeb Bush’s economic-policy adviser during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Education
- M.P.P. in Economics & American Politics, Pepperdine University
Research Interests & Policy Focus
Heil’s scholarship centers on replacing ineffective government interventions with market-oriented reforms that promote workforce participation and human-capital development. His analyses span the distributional effects of tax changes, the fiscal sustainability of Medicare and Social Security, the unintended consequences of universal basic income proposals, and the regulatory burden on e-business and telecommunications.
Across more than one-hundred articles, op-eds, working papers, podcasts, and videos since 2020, Heil has consistently argued for greater transparency in Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation scoring, expansion of Health Savings Accounts as a vehicle for consumer-driven health care, and structural reforms to entitlement programs to avert long-run debt crises.
Selected Research Teams & Collaborations
- Healthcare Policy Working Group, Hoover Institution
- Fiscal Policy Initiative, Hoover Institution
- Co-author network: John F. Cogan, Tom Church, Lanhee J. Chen, Joshua D. Rauh, Casey B. Mulligan, Benjamin Jaros, Andrew G. Biggs
Impact & Outreach
Heil’s writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Health Affairs, Stat News, The Hill, Reason, Hoover Digest, and numerous PolicyEd short-form videos. His America Off Balance budget calculator invites citizens to explore trade-offs required for fiscal sustainability, translating complex economic analysis into accessible public engagement tools.
