Soho Forum Debate: Jacob Hacker vs. David Goldhill

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When: Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Where: Sheen Center for Thought & Culture
18 Bleecker St.
212-925-2812
Price: $12

Resolution: The government should offer to all Americans a health insurance plan that would compete with private insurance plans.

For the affirmative: Jacob Hacker is the Stanley Resor Professor of political science at Yale University, the codirector of the Ludwig Program in public sector leadership at Yale Law School, and a resident fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. His 2002 book, The Divided Welfare State: The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award by the American Political Science Association.

For the negative: David Goldhill is the CEO and cofounder of Sesame, an online marketplace for discounted health services, and chair of the board of directors at the Leapfrog Group, an independent organization for hospital and medical safety. He was the president and CEO of the Game Show Network and president of TV at Universal Studios, and his 2013 book, Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong, catapulted David to a leading voice for health care advocacy.

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