Chris Pope is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where his research focuses on entitlement reform, insurance markets, and healthcare payment policy.

Pope is the author of The American Way of Welfare – an assessment of the historical development, current effectiveness, and opportunities to reform the welfare state.  He has recently published reports on Medicaid managed care, the extent of redistribution by age and income, social determinants of health, and rural hospital finance.

Previously, Pope was director of policy research at West Health, health-policy fellow at the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and research manager at the American Enterprise Institute.  He holds a B.Sc. in government and economics from the London School of Economics and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis.​