Jack Strayer is a public policy consultant with a practice emphasizing market-based health insurance reform, prescription drug coverage, labor issues and employer-employee relations, and senior entitlement issues including Social Security and Medicare reform.

Strayer began his private practice following four years service as Vice President for External Affairs for the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. Strayer was responsible for maintaining NCPA’s Washington office and its agenda on Capitol Hill and the media.

Prior to his service with the NCPA, Strayer was Legislative Consultant with the firm Taylor, Thiemann & Aitken located in Alexandria, Virginia. From 1992 until 1997, Strayer was Director of Federal Affairs for the Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI).

While at CAHI, Strayer was regarded as the lead lobbyist for the health insurance industry on free market health reform initiatives including Medical Savings Accounts, tax equity, small group reform, and state-based risk pools as an alternative to guaranteed issue. After making over 200 Hill visits to Senators and Congressmen in just a few months, The Washington Post in an August 1992 profile of Strayer bestowed upon him the title of "the affable arch-enemy of national health insurance."

Born, raised and educated in Niles, Michigan, and the son and grandson of family physicians, Strayer left Michigan after graduating from Albion College and came to Washington, D.C. in 1976 with Congressman-Elect David Stockman, whose campaign for Congress Strayer managed. Strayer served as Stockman’s Personal Assistant and office manager until 1980 when he returned to Michigan to serve as the Press Secretary for the Republican Caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives, a position he held until 1986.

Jack Strayer is a nationally recognized expert on free market health reforms and he has appeared on CNN Prime Time News as a health reform commentator; CNNfn, Fox News Channel, CBS-TV, CNBC, C-SPAN, PBS’ Nightly Business Report, Fox Morning News, National Empowerment Television, News Talk Television and the nationally syndicated Suzanne Somers Show. Strayer is also a guest columnist for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain and his weekly column appears throughout the United States.