Our American Experiment

Avik Roy on reinventing the traditional think tank

June 18th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  52 mins 8 secs

conservatism, economic opportunity, health care, immigration, public policy

In many ways, the life of Avik Roy was pretty predictable. He had gone to MIT, later Yale medical school, then he was investing in companies and making a lot of money. And then something happened: when he grew concerned about health care policies, he went in search of solutions only to find that he was the solution. How Avik Roy, son of Indian immigrants, is expanding economic opportunity for Americans who least have it by reinventing the traditional American think tank.