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Robert E. Moffit is the Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies atThe Heritage Foundation, a conservativethink tank based inWashington D.C. As a former senior official at theUnited States Department of Health and Human Services and theUnited States Office of Personnel Management, Moffit has specialized inMedicare reform,health insurance, and other federal health policy issues for nearly three decades.[1]
Moffit received hisbachelor's degree inpolitical science fromLa Salle University inPhiladelphia in 1969 and his master's anddoctorate degrees from theUniversity of Arizona inTucson, Arizona.
He served as an assistant director in theUnited States Office of Personnel Management during theReagan administration with responsibilities in both federal personnel policy and Congressional relations, and Deputy Assistant Secretary at theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Following his federal service, Moffit was a senior associate of the Capitol Resources Group International, where he assisted clients primarily in the field of federal health care policy.
After joiningThe Heritage Foundation in 1991, Moffit gained publicity with his draft of Heritage's analysis ofPresident Bill Clinton's plan tonationalize the U.S. health care system. In 1993,The Washington Post ran a feature story detailing Moffit's criticisms of the Clinton proposal. Meanwhile, he called for aconsumer-driven health care policy providing tax credits to help people buy health insurance of their personal choice.
Moffit's team helped developMassachusetts' health insurance reform initiative in 2005. The Massachusetts plan developed a new system that would allow employees in small businesses to choose their health plan through a statewide "health insurance exchange." The exchange was one of the first in the country to provide a market-based approach to health care, enabling individuals to own a private and fully portable health insurance plan and take it with them from job to job.
Moffit's research has also involved him in debates overMedicare reform, how to ensure access toprescription drugs, and how to improve access to private health care coverage. A longtime advocate of a consumer-driven approach, Moffit recommends that the government adopt a new program for thebaby boomers entering Medicare in 2011 similar to the consumer-drivenFederal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP), which allows members of Congress and federal workers to select coverage from a broad range of competing private health plans. Moffit has also been an advocate of thefree market principles ofconsumer choice and competition since the early 1990s, when he chastised Congress for keeping such a system of choice and competition "exclusively for itself and federal workers while considering ways to impose vastly inferior systems on almost all [other] Americans."
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