Joel is the Founder and President of Horizon Government Affairs, a health care consultancy that represents several dozen clients and runs four coalitions comprised of 200 organizations dedicated to reforms that improve our health system. Since Horizon’s founding in 2007, his team has helped enact more than 50 laws and helped shape countless regulations governing all aspects of the U.S. health care system.

Previously, Joel spent twelve years on Capitol Hill including as Staff Director of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. While on the Hill he helped enact nine laws, including the 2002 Trade Act, which created health care tax credits for private coverage, and the 2003 law that established the Medicare prescription drug benefit and created Health Savings Accounts. He also helped enact the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act and the 2006 Tax Reform and Health Care Act, which reformed Medicare payment policies.

Joel is dedicated to community service that helps the poor and those with mental illness. He is on the Board of Directors of Samaritan Inns, one of the largest private homeless and treatment centers in DC. He runs Arlington Bridge Builders, which develops and operates anti-poverty strategies in VA. He is also on the boards of the Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance, SafeNetRx, and Chaddock Behavioral Health.

J.P. Wieske joined Horizon Government Affairs as Vice President of State Affairs in January 2019. He was previously the Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the State of Wisconsin where he supervised the regulatory, public information and administrative functions of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance.

Wieske also served on Governor Scott Walker’s Opioid Task Force and served as an active member of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, where he chaired various subgroups including the Regulatory Framework Task Force and the Health Care Reform Alternatives Working Group.

As Vice President of State Affairs, Wieske leads HGA’s continued expansion into state policy, enhancing clients’ access to state regulators, legislators, and executives while leveraging his more than 25 years of industry experience to drive smarter state policy reforms.

David R. Henderson is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was previously a senior economist with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers.

He has written 3 books (2 of which were co-authored) and edited 2 books. His edited volume, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, was the first, and still the only, reader-friendly encyclopedia of economics. David blogs on economic policy at a Substack titled “I Blog to Differ” and at Econlib.org.

He has written over 400 articles for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, Fortune, the Washington Post, USA Today, Reason, the Red Herring, the Chicago Tribune, and other popular publications. He has also appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, CBC, and the BBC, and has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress.

John Fund is national-affairs columnist for National Review. He worked for the Wall Street Journal for more than two decades, starting in 1984, and was a member of the newspaper’s editorial board from 1995 to 2001.

Fund has written for Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Reason, and the New Republic. He co-wrote Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for Term Limits with James Coyne. In 2004, he wrote Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. He has written two books with Hans von Spakovsky: Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk and Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.