Center Vision
The Center for a Healthy America is invested in improving the health of Americans now and for generations to come. Decisions about what, how, and where care is received should be made by patients and doctors not by politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., state capitals, and industry. AFPI will create healthcare policies and educate stakeholders to put the patient and doctor in control, dignify life, promote better health and health outcomes, improve access, and lower costs for Americans. This is critically important as the health of Americans is essential for a thriving and prosperous country.
AFPI’s Center for a Healthy America works to create policies that give all Americans full agency in decisions that affect their health and well-being. In order for America’s healthcare system to return to its primary mission of improving the health and health outcomes of Americans and reach its full potential, advancement must focus on putting patients first to improve the individual and population health of America.
POLICY PRIORITIES
- Better Care
- More Choice
- Lower Costs
FACT SHEET: The Benefits of Expanding Member-Based, Nonprofit Health Plans in Missouri
Abigail Chance
FACT SHEET: Improving hospital Price Transparency in Ohio
ISSUE BRIEF - Risking Two lives—The Dangerous Rise of Chemical abortion
Matias Perttula and Heidi Overton, M.D., Ph.D
FACT SHEET: Improving Hospital Price Transparency in Oklahoma
FACT SHEET: Improving Hospital Price Transparency in Missouri
Improving Hospital Price Transparency in Virginia
Update on Hospital Price Transparency in 2023 State Legislative sessions
Abigail Chance and Heidi Overton, M.D., Ph.D
Fentanyl: The Deadly Consequences
Robert Law, Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, Kristen Ziccarelli, & Abigail Chance
Key Points of the Hospital Price Transparency Act
Hospital Price Transparency Act
Dr. Heidi Overton and Abigail Chance
Who Are the Real Abortion Radicals? A Comparative Perspective
Pastor Paula White-Cain, Heidi Overton, M.D., Ph.D., Kristen Ziccarelli, and Garrison Grisedale
State Health Policy Issue Brief: Increasing Hospital Price Transparency Compliance in States
State Health Policy Issue Brief: Removing Restrictions to Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance in States
Issue Brief: The Inflationary Impact of Expanded ACA Subsidies on Health Insurance Premiums and Alternative Options to Put Americans First
Issue Brief: The Big Government Socialism Bill Jeopardizes the Future of Prescription Drugs for Americans
Executive Summary: Achieving a Healthier America
Issue Brief: Expanding Medicaid Would Have Unintended Negative Consequences
Issue Brief: Expanding Medicare Would Fail Seniors Who Depend on the Program
Center for a Healthy America Overview
Fmr. Gov. Bobby Jindal and Heidi Overton, M.D.
An Answer That Raises Questions - The “Wuhan Lab Leak” Theory and Implications for Biodefense and Public Health
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Keith Kellogg, Jacob Olidort, Ph.D., and Heidi Overton, M.D.
Operation Warp Speed: Innovating Vaccine Development While Addressing a National Crisis
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Keith Kellogg, Jacob Olidort, Ph.D., and Heidi Overton, M.D.
Hospital Price Transparency: From Washington, D.C., to Austin, Texas, and Beyond
Heidi Overton, M.D., and David Balat
The Leadership of the America First Policy Institute Provided the Following Reactions and Insight Into the State of America One Year Into the Biden Administration
The United States Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
STATEMENT: AFPI’S CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTER FOR A HEALTHY AMERICA, FORMER GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL, ON BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S VACCINE MANDATE
ICYMI: WSJ: The Danger of Expanding Medicare
Bobby Jindal
AFPI ANNOUNCES FORMER LOUISIANA GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL TO JOIN AS CHAIR OF CENTER FOR A HEALTHY AMERICA
Price Transparency: Bigger than Healthcare for Patients and Doctors
Heidi Overton, M.D.
AFPI, TPPF: Healthcare Needs Price Transparency
Op-Ed: Four paradoxes of health care reform: Conservatives can take moral and political high ground
Newt Gingrich and Bobby Jindal
Op-Ed: Modernize Medicare Without Cutting Benefits or Raising Taxes
Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich
Op-Ed: Health care is a moral issue first, economic second. Here’s what conservatives must do
Newt Gingrich and Bobby Jindal
Trump Administration’s Transparency in Coverage: Three-month Review and What to Expect in January
Abigail Chance
AFPI 2022 Annual Policy Summit
AFPI Statement on WHO’s World Health Assembly Annual Convening
Gen. (Ret.) Keith Kellogg & Former Governor Bobby Jindal
Happy First Birthday AFPI!
Biden’s far-left approach to ‘health’
Bobby Jindal & Abigail Slagle
You Can Oppose School Covid-Vaccine Mandates without Opposing Vaccines
Bobby Jindal and Heidi Overton
State Health Policy Issue Brief: Removing Restrictions to Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance in States
Expanding Obamacare subsidies will cause even more inflation
Bobby Jindal and Abigail Slagle
Biden Expands the Role of Government in Healthcare
Abigail Slagle
An Examination of the First Year of Biden’s Presidency
Op-Ed: Ending the COVID-19 emergency
Bobby Jindal & Heidi Overton
Op-Ed: Biden’s Vaccine Idolatry is Not Working
Bobby Jindal
Democrats Shouldn’t Build Back Bitter
Bobby Jindal
States can provide Obamacare relief without repeal
Bobby Jindal
The Trump Republicans’ Lessons for Democrats
Governor Bobby Jindal
Op-Ed: Lawmakers’ Latest ‘Infrastructure’ Scheme Is a Takeover of American Health Care
Bobby Jindal and Tim Phillips in National Review
Op-Ed: The Danger of Expanding Medicare
Bobby Jindal in Wall Street Journal
Op-Ed: Texas Provides a Model for Conservative Healthcare Reform
Bobby Jindal in Wall Street Journal
Op-Ed: Republicans Can Lead on Healthcare Reform
Bobby Jindal in Wall Street Journal
Op-Ed: Washington Times: The truth of COVID-19 and demand for accountability
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Keith Kellogg and Heidi Overton, M.D
Abigail Chance lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Houston, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina growing up and serves as a Policy Analyst in the Center for a Healthy America at AFPI. Previously, she was a Research Associate in Domestic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. In this role, she authored research papers on a variety of health and welfare policies, including Obamacare individual exchange enrollment trends, single-payer health care, and COVID-19 response policies. Abigail also served as a government relations intern at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Fortune-150 healthcare technology company. Slagle holds a master’s degree in Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, both from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Growing up, she was a competitive ice skater and competed overseas several times. When she is not working, Abigail enjoys cooking, museums, traveling, and watching movies at home with her cat, Quincy.
“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
James Buchanan
Bobby Jindal is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and currently serves as the Chair of the Center for a Healthy America at AFPI. Jindal has a well-earned reputation as one of America’s most successful public sector executives and one of the boldest innovators in the healthcare and education sectors. Jindal used his two terms as Governor of Louisiana to rebuild and diversify the state’s economy and financial footing in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Jindal’s agenda included top-to-bottom reformation and privatization of the state-run charity hospital and the state’s healthcare payer systems. Fiscally, Jindal reduced the state budget by 26%, reduced the state employee headcount by 30,000, and implemented the largest income tax reduction in state history. Despite being the Nation’s youngest governor when he was elected in 2007, Jindal was well-prepared thanks to stints as the head of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, President of the University of Louisiana System, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare – all before his thirtieth birthday. Jindal graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Public Policy, with honors, from Brown University, and received a Master of Letters in Politics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Dr. Heidi Overton is from Gallup, New Mexico, and serves as AFPI’s Chief Policy Officer and Director, Center for Healthy America. Overton recently served as a White House Fellow in 2019-2020 in both the Office of American Innovation and the Domestic Policy Council and is currently completing her medical training in Preventive Medicine. Previously, Overton was a general surgery resident at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a physician advocate for price and quality transparency in healthcare through Restoring Medicine. During medical school, Overton was appointed by Governor Susana Martinez to serve on the University of New Mexico (UNM) Board of Regents, which included fiduciary and full-voting responsibilities for all business and clinical operations of the university and health system. Overton graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Health, Medicine, and Human Values from UNM’s Combined BA/MD Program, received her medical degree from the UNM School of Medicine, and obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Overton loves living in our nation’s capital and enjoys traveling to see family and friends around the country, especially going back home, where she gets her fill of New Mexico red and green chile and can improve her favorite new hobby – golf – in the bright blue skies and sunshine of the high desert.
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for people.”
Colossians 3:23