Jeremy Nighohossian is a senior fellow and economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, focusing on health care policy. His expertise is in healthcare antitrust and regulation including Certificate of Need regulations and competition and federal and state reimbursement policies. Jeremy writes on how government regulation and dominance of the healthcare sector stifle innovation, reduce quality, and raise costs.
Jeremy holds a Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Before joining CEI, he worked at the Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy at FTI Consulting where he specialized in anti-trust and disputes in healthcare working on several projects with Compass Lexecon. While at FTI, Dr. Nighohossian built a policy analysis practice where he conducted analyses of state and national healthcare policies. Jeremy’s expertise has taken him around the world, testifying to the South Africa Competition Commission on hospital prices and how they relate to supply and he helped design a value-based payment system in the UK.
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News
President Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan presents a mixed bag of reforms: CEI analysis
Today, the Trump administration announced its “Great Healthcare Plan,” which suggested reforms and policies aimed at addressing rising healthcare prices. CEI’s Jeremy Nighohossian says that…
House votes to extend Obamacare subsidies, prolonging problems: CEI analysis
On Thursday, the House passed a three-year extension of the enhanced premium tax credits for Obamacare enrollees. These enhanced credits were originally created during COVID…
CEI Study: Government laws against pharmacy ownership would increase costs, restrict access for consumers
Innovation is reshaping how Americans get their prescription medications. Whether picking up medications in person, ordering online, or getting same-day delivery from services like Capsule,…
Blog
HSAs: A silver bullet for the silver loading conundrum
After the longest government shutdown in American history — ostensibly caused by the expiration of the expanded Obamacare subsidies — Republicans have debated health care…
Obamacare’s subsidy cliff: How many enrollees are actually affected?
Democrats in Congress have put Obamacare front and center in their opposition to the Republicans’ temporary budget. One provision of the American Rescue Plan…
The TrumpRx medicine will prove worse than the disease
On September 30, President Trump, standing alongside the CEO of Pfizer, announced a multifaceted deal wherein Pfizer would inoculate itself from new regulations and…
Op-Eds/Articles
National Review
RFK Jr.’s Cherry-Picked Science
One of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promises as secretary of health and human services was to bring gold-standard science to our public…
DC Journal
Point: Medicaid Work Requirements Are a Common-Sense Reform
Medicaid is the government program that is supposed to help the poor afford health care. Its cost to taxpayers has skyrocketed in the last few…
DC Journal
What the Media Gets Wrong About Medicaid ‘Cuts’
Headlines assert that the reforms Republicans recently passed amount to a trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid. The New York Times calls this the most significant cut to federal…
Studies
A Free Market is the Best Medicine
Introduction The pharmaceutical supply market is seeing extraordinarily high levels of innovation and consumer-benefiting evolution. The combination of a competitive market for generic drugs, rapid…
I, Pharmaceutical
The global pharmaceutical industry is complex. This is true not only in the number of countries involved but the range of products, the sets of…
Citations
Freedom Works Radio
Jeremy Nighohossian, Competitive Enterprise Institute “Trump Healthcare Plan a Mixed Bag”: Freedom Works Radio Show
Freedom Works Radio show interviews CEI’s expert on healthcare Listen to Freedom Works Radio…
NewsTalkSTL
NewsTalkSTL: Jeremy Nighohossian of Competitive Enterprise Institute 1-19-2026
The Lars Larson Show
The Lars Larson Northwest Podcast
The Lars Larson Show interviewed CEI’s expert on Healthcare Listen to more on The Lars Larson Show…
Podcast Episodes
Obamacare Problems with Jeremy Nighohossian
This week we talk about the unintended consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, decarbonization of economic growth, and resources for reporting government corruption at...