# Event Details - **Event Name**: Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: Ideas Uncorked: Where Politics Meets Policy, Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections with Lanhee Chen, Hoover Institution FellowAbout this EventIdeas Uncorked: Where Politics Meets Policy, Health Care and the 2026 Midterm ElectionsTHURSDAY JANUARY 22, 20255:00 - 6:30 p.m. ET | RECEPTION FOLLOWED BY SPEAKING PROGRAMfeaturingLanhee Chen, David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover InstitutionDaniel Heil, Policy Fellow, Hoover Institution Tom Church, Policy Fellow, Hoover Institution _____________________________________________________________Join The Hoover Institution in DC for the next session in the Ideas Uncorked monthly happy hour series that brings together preeminent scholars from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the best from California Wine Country.This is an in-person only series at the Hoover Institution's Washington, DC office.ABOUTLanhee Chen is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and cochair of its Healthcare Policy Working Group, At Stanford University, he is also director of Domestic Policy Studies, lecturer in the Public Policy Program, and an affiliated faculty member of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies.Daniel Heil is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution whose focus is on the federal budget, tax policy, and the federal antipoverty programs.Heil’s interests include replacing failed policies with state and federal initiatives that alleviate poverty by encouraging workforce participation and human capital development. He has also written on the perils of telecommunication regulations and the economic effects of e-business.Tom Church is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution. He studies health care policy, entitlement reform, income inequality, poverty, and the federal budget.Church’s research interests include tax-advantaged savings accounts for health care, the fiscal effects of a federal public option, state-based regulatory reform, pro-growth federal tax policy, and the distributional effects of entitlement spending reform. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/where-politics-meets-policy-health-care-and-the-2026-midterm-elections/100001980194856120 - **Event Categories**: health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: Hoover Institution - **lat**: 38.8998638 - **long**: -77.0315555 - **full address**: Hoover Institution, 1399 New York Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/63576322ea6f2974578a3d5f1f5a107b700a469695da6d524008cedf180505ec-rimg-w1200-h368-dc1e517d-gmir.jpg?v=1768183345 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections being held? - **A:** Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections takes place on Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm at Hoover Institution, 1399 New York Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections? - **A:** Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections is organized by Hoover Institution, Washington DC. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Where Politics Meets Policy: Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/63576322ea6f2974578a3d5f1f5a107b700a469695da6d524008cedf180505ec-rimg-w1200-h368-dc1e517d-gmir.jpg?v=1768183345", "startDate": "2026-01-22", "endDate": "2026-01-22", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/where-politics-meets-policy-health-care-and-the-2026-midterm-elections/100001980194856120", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Hoover Institution", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1399 New York Avenue Northwest", "postalCode": "20005", "addressLocality": "Washington", "addressRegion": "DC", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.8998638", "longitude": "-77.0315555" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Ideas Uncorked: Where Politics Meets Policy, Health Care and the 2026 Midterm Elections with Lanhee Chen, Hoover Institution Fellow", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "2026-01-22", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/where-politics-meets-policy-health-care-and-the-2026-midterm-elections/100001980194856120" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/where-politics-meets-policy-health-care-and-the-2026-midterm-elections/100001980194856120", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Hoover Institution Washington DC", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/hoover-institution-washington-dc/24215038", "description": "The Hoover Institution in Washington is a branch office equipped to execute the two core functions of the Institution itself: policy research and outreach. 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