This event will address the problems and improvements needed for student loans, beginning with a keynote presentation by former secretary of education Bill Bennett.

The Senate approved legislation to restore modest reductions to the loan limits applicable to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA. Except for the housing lobby, there is widespread agreement that reducing these limits is a key first step towards ending the government's chokehold on the now nationalized housing finance market.

We estimate that a family affordability rule could initially lead to as many as 1.3 million more workers accessing exchange subsidies for themselves and their families than under a single affordability rule. If employees pay 50 percent of the premiums in the future, this number increases to 6 million.

America over invests in higher education, and the cost of a college degree is rising at an unjustifiably rapid rate.

Instead of micromanaging the health sector, sensible policy would take advantage of market incentives to reduce inefficiency and promote a high-value health care system.

How do we continue to pay for new drugs and and more innovative treatments, especially when this additional progress also comes with an additional economic cost?

How can more accurate and actionable information about physicians improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care?

The PPACA's rate review and MLR provisions represent costly, bureaucratic interference with insurers' legitimate business decisions and state regulatory prerogatives. This will do little to enhance competition in health insurance markets and the availability and affordability of health insurance.