Hadley Heath
Senior Policy Analyst
Hadley Heath is a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum specializing in health care, entitlements, economics and fiscal policy. Her previous work also includes independent research on Western European media systems in England, France, Germany, and Spain, and a service project in Calcutta, India.
Heath appears frequently in print, broadcast, and radio outlets across the country, and her work has been featured in publications including National Review Online, Townhall.com and The Daily Caller. She also manages IWF's Health Care Lawsuits Web site. She regularly represents IWF in coalition meetings and conferences around the globe.
Prior to joining IWF, Heath studied economic development and globalization with the School of International Training in Santiago, Chile. She graduated with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar with a bachelor's degree in economics and journalism.
Heath has also been featured in several publications such as The Star and The Scholar for her accomplishments.
Follow Hadley Heath on Twitter
Recent Articles:
ObamaCare Fans Suddenly Concerned for Big, Bad Insurance Companies
May 16 2012
Three Ways ObamaCare Hurts Women (And Men!)
May 15 2012
May 15 2012
Consumer Spending Slows: Good News or Bad News?
May 14 2012
How to Buy Votes with Health Insurance Rebates
May 11 2012
Businesses, States Hedge Bets on ObamaCare SCOTUS Decision
May 10 2012
May 3 2012
May 1 2012
President Obama Visits Chapel Hill to Perform with Dave Matthews Band and Jimmy Fallon
April 24 2012
Food Nannies vs. Freedom of Speech
April 24 2012
"Equal Pay Day" or Tax Day - Which Concerns Women More?
April 17 2012
Esquire is Right - and Wrong - about "War Against Youth"
April 5 2012
The Health Reform War Will Come Back
April 3 2012
Medicaid - the Gun to the Head
March 30 2012
Supreme Court Protesters Show ObamaCare's True Colors
March 29 2012
Day Three at SCOTUS: Is the Mandate Severable?
March 28 2012
Judgment Day for the Individual Mandate
March 27 2012
One Day Down: Anti-Injunction Arguments
March 26 2012
March 20 2012
Medicaid Flexibility for States - A Real Possibility?
March 8 2012
Happy International Women's Day!
March 8 2012
March 1 2012
No Statistics: Just Lies and Damned Lies
March 1 2012
Leap Day Tradition: Female Proposals
February 29 2012
February 17 2012
Help! North Carolina is Waging "War on Women!"
February 16 2012
CPAC Live Blog: ObamaCare, ObamaCare, ObamaCare
February 10 2012
CPAC Live Blog: Give Me Liberty and Give Me Fairness
February 9 2012
Butting Heads over Birth Control
February 9 2012
CPAC Live Blog: It's the Spending, Stupid!
February 9 2012
Employer Health Insurance Mandates Are Also a Recipe for High Unemployment
February 7 2012
Komen Reverses Decision on Planned Parenthood Funding
February 3 2012
Job Creation Engine Tries to Start - Is There Fuel?
February 3 2012
Poll Reveals Strong Majority Oppose Individual Mandate
February 1 2012
How Far is it from School Choice to Health Care Choice?
January 30 2012
SOTU Live Blog: "Their Fair Share"
January 24 2012
SOTU Live Blog: Let's Support Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups!
January 24 2012
SOTU Live Blog: Obama's Biggest Fan
January 24 2012
School Choice: An End to the Culture Wars?
January 24 2012
The Sad Reality of "The Bachelor"
January 19 2012
Keystone Rejection is an XL Mistake
January 18 2012
ObamaCare is a Regulation Machine
January 17 2012
Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be... Doctors?
January 9 2012
The End of Affirmative Action?
January 5 2012
Chief Justice Defends Recusal Process in Year-End Report
January 3 2012
Before and After: The Payroll Tax Holiday Season
December 22 2011
Pilot Medicaid Reforms in Florida See Success
December 21 2011
America Is Still Number One... In Charitable Giving
December 20 2011
Will State-Level Health Insurance Exchanges Be Ready on Time?
December 19 2011
More Young Adults Have Health Insurance (Thanks to Mom and Dad)
December 16 2011
Jobs Through Growth, Growth Through Tax and Regulatory Reform
December 13 2011
Fending for Ourselves: The Liberal Lie in Place of Strong Families, Society
December 8 2011
Women CEOs Agree: Uncertainty is a Job Killer
December 5 2011
Unemployment Decreases: Time to "Step on the Gas"
December 2 2011
ObamaCare: Bad News for Sick Workers
November 30 2011
Shocking New Study: Men Think About Other Things Besides Sex
November 28 2011
For National Thanksgiving Holiday, Thank... A Woman!
November 23 2011
No Word from NOW on OWS Sexual Assaults
November 22 2011
ObamaCare - A Small Biz Nightmare
November 18 2011
New Report Examines Why Kagan Should Recuse Herself from ObamaCare Cases
November 9 2011
Entitlement Reform Is Not About Grandma
November 7 2011
Unemployment Rate "Dips" to 9 Percent
November 4 2011
Wheat, Weed, and Other Reasons to be Optimistic about ObamaCare's Day in Court
November 3 2011
Public Opinion of ObamaCare Hits All-Time Low
October 31 2011
CLASS Act Hearing Shows the Arrogance of Government
October 26 2011
Super Committee Should Avoid Health Entitlement Glut this Thanksgiving
October 24 2011
Even DOJ Says Don't Sever ACA's Individual Mandate
October 21 2011
Harry Reid: Private Sector Jobs "Doing Just Fine"
October 20 2011
Obama Travels to NC to Defend His Policies
October 18 2011
ObamaCare: A CLASS in Accounting Tricks
October 17 2011
"Miss Representation" – A Valuable Message or More Women-as-Victim Whining?
October 13 2011
A Nobel Prize for Economists Who Undercut Keynesianism
October 12 2011
Economic Freedom, Not Wealth Redistribution, Will Solve the Problem of Poverty
October 3 2011
Supreme Court ObamaCare Cert Petitions Abound This Week
September 29 2011
New Survey: Health Insurance Premiums Surge, Young Adults Back on Mom and Dad's Plan
September 27 2011
Deadline Today for En Banc Petition in Florida Case
September 26 2011
GOP Debate: Mandates and Mulligans
September 13 2011
IWF Event Livestream: Women and Technology
September 9 2011
Fourth Circuit Offers Disappointing Defense of ObamaCare
September 8 2011
Why Federal Infrastructure Projects Are a Bad Idea
September 2 2011
August 31 2011
For Youth, Slow Economy Means 'No We Can't'
August 31 2011
Hurricane Irene Won't Improve the Economy
August 29 2011
August 23 2011
Despite Taxpayer-Funded PR Campaign, ObamaCare Remains Unpopular
August 22 2011
The Individual Mandate Ruling - Round III
August 18 2011
Let's Celebrate the 19th Amendment Today and on Election Day
August 18 2011
The Individual Mandate Ruling - Round II
August 17 2011
It Seems Even Obama Regrets ObamaCare
August 17 2011
The Individual Mandate Ruling - Round I
August 16 2011
Victory for Liberty in 11th Circuit Ruling on ObamaCare
August 12 2011
U.K. Riots: Millennials Need Community, Family
August 12 2011
ObamaCare Deficit-Neutral? What a Joke!
August 11 2011
August 8 2011
July 28 2011
Never Heard of the Debt Ceiling?
July 26 2011
July 25 2011
India's First "Slut Walk" Renamed "PrideStride for Women"
July 25 2011
ObamaCare Could "Firewall" Middle Class Families
July 22 2011
The Mike Schikman Show: Rationing Board Spells Doom for Medicare
July 19 2011
ObamaCare's Rationing Board Spells Doom for Medicare
July 12 2011
July 1 2011
Medicaid Block Grants: Good for States, Beneficiaries, and Taxpayers
July 1 2011
Breaking News: Appellate Court Rules ObamaCare Constitutional
June 29 2011
"Mystery Shoppers" Coming to a Doctor Near You
June 28 2011
Careful what you tell... your doctor?
June 17 2011
Obama"Care" Doesn't Care about Kids on Medicaid
June 16 2011
New Interactive Health Care Lawsuit Timeline!
June 15 2011
Let's Talk about this "Slutwalk" Stuff
June 14 2011
CBN News: The Economy and the 2012 Race
June 12 2011
ObamaCare: This is Why We Have Judicial Review
June 9 2011
June 8 2011
Eleventh Circuit to Hear Florida Case Tomorrow
June 7 2011
Apply the Success of Welfare Reform to Medicaid
June 6 2011
You Should Sign Up for the Daily Dose
June 3 2011
Appellate Courts Weigh ObamaCare
June 2 2011
Coffee and Markets: Challenging Obamacare
June 2 2011
What's Up with Terry Lowry: Are Christian Conservatives Wrong to Cut Spending for Social Programs?
May 31 2011
Tar Heels Fans Forced to Give Money to Duke
May 26 2011
Religion and Politics: Conversation Good, Condemnation Bad
May 23 2011
Paid-Sick-Leave Mandates Miss the Point
May 18 2011
May 17 2011
Health Care Lawsuits: Against the Odds
May 10 2011
May 9 2011
Health Care Compacts: Reform from the States
May 2 2011
Docs 4 Patient Care Leader Recognized
April 28 2011
Natural Born or Not: Let's Talk Leadership
April 27 2011
Regulation is Robbing Us of $1.75 Trillion
April 21 2011
April 21 2011
Parents Can Stop the Sexy Trends in Children's Clothing
April 20 2011
Arizona Legislature Leads with Free-Market Health Reform
April 18 2011
Today is Actually "Tax Freedom Day"
April 12 2011
Obama Can't Think Outside of the Tax-Hike Box
April 12 2011
April 8 2011
Bad for Doctors, Awful for You and Me
April 8 2011
Obama's Signature is the Only 1099 Paperwork Left
April 6 2011
The Only Thing Crazier Than Ryan's Cuts
April 5 2011
April 4 2011
Government Shutdown is Completely Avoidable
March 31 2011
March 28 2011
Welfare Reform: Necessary AND Good
March 25 2011
Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America
March 24 2011
Not-So-Happy Birthday, ObamaCare.
March 23 2011
ObamaCare Unlikely to Gain Popularity... During Tax Season
March 22 2011
Check Out the New Health Care Lawsuits Map!
March 10 2011
IWF in the News: Are Obamacare's Health-insurance Exchange Requirements Unconstitutional?
March 9 2011
Whines from Wisconsin vs. Basic Economics
March 3 2011
Atlas Shrugged (the Movie!) More Relevant Now Than Ever
March 2 2011
Shocking New Study: Government is Inefficient
March 1 2011
The Andy Caldwell Show: America Needs Kitchen-Table Budgeting
February 28 2011
February 24 2011
February 22 2011
America Needs Kitchen-Table Budgeting
February 22 2011
Christie: Fiscal Leader in Word and in Deed
February 17 2011
Snow Storm to Affect 31 States; ObamaCare Legal Storm to Affect All 50
February 1 2011
Senate to Vote on Repeal of Health Law
February 1 2011
Bring On the ObamaCare Deficit Debate
January 31 2011
January 27 2011
"Don't Tell Me Words Don't Matter."
January 25 2011
State of the Union - If Only...
January 25 2011
RTV: Social Security and the Budget
January 24 2011
One-Size-Fits-All Health Care Hurts Special Needs Kids
January 21 2011
January 19 2011
Half the States in the Union are Suing the Federal Government
January 12 2011
We're "Entitled" to More National Debt
January 12 2011
ObamaCare Repeal - The Great "Cost" of Common Sense
January 10 2011
January 6 2011
A Chance at a Clean Drawing Board on Health Reform
January 4 2011
January 3 2011
"Compromise" for Christmas, New Challenges in the New Year
December 24 2010
"Compromise" for Christmas, New Challenges in the New Year
December 24 2010
The Government Formula... and Breastfeeding
December 23 2010
Santa Baby... Defund ObamaCare.
December 22 2010
Congratulations to the UConn Women's Team
December 22 2010
ObamaCare Meets Obstacles: Funding and Public Opinion
December 21 2010
Hunting for Millionaires in Oregon
December 21 2010
Teachers Should Think Twice Before Supporting ObamaCare
December 20 2010
December 16 2010
December 16 2010
Today in Florida - Who Rules the U.S.?
December 16 2010
ObamaCare Meets Checks and Balances
December 13 2010
Same Old Same Old: Wealth Envy
December 10 2010
Decision on Avastin Has Real Consequences
December 10 2010
December 9 2010
Read My Lips... No New Spending!
December 9 2010
More than the Individual Mandate
December 7 2010
At Least Conservatives are Consistent
December 7 2010
December 6 2010
December 3 2010
Baby, It's Cold Outside. But Federal Pay is Far from Frozen.
December 3 2010
Whoa There, Tax Cuts Don't Have to Be "Deficit-Financed"
December 2 2010
Even the Marketplace of Ideas Can Be Regulated
December 2 2010
It's Hard to Admit When You're Wrong
November 29 2010
ObamaCare Keeps Poor People Poor
November 24 2010
November 23 2010
November 22 2010
November 22 2010
November 22 2010
November 19 2010
Reality Speaks Louder Than CEDAW
November 19 2010
Health insurers like that we are forced to do business with them
November 19 2010
November 16 2010
November 15 2010
Waiver Frequency Indicates Bad Policy
November 15 2010
November 10 2010
November 8 2010
An Uninformed Vote Disrespects Suffragettes and our Founding Fathers
November 2 2010
October 27 2010
Dear Santa, All I Want for Christmas is... My Personal Freedom
October 18 2010
Drink this Bottle to Make Government Smaller...
October 15 2010
Florida Lawsuit Against Health Reform to Continue
October 14 2010
Formal Ruling to Come Down in Florida Case
October 13 2010
�¿Qu�© Piensan los Votantes Latinos?
October 6 2010
Keeping Bad Teachers Around Discourages Newer, Better Ones
October 6 2010
October 5 2010
Under Law, I am an "Adult Child"
September 28 2010
Those Big, Bad, Angry, Rich People
September 21 2010
September 20 2010
Intention Does Not Equal Outcome
September 17 2010
French Burqa Ban Passes Upper House
September 15 2010
September 15 2010
Who wants to be a millionaire?
September 15 2010
September 13 2010
September 7 2010
September 1 2010
The Mike Shickman Show: The Fight For Independence Continues
August 31 2010
August 30 2010
August 27 2010
Republicans Abroad: The Fight for Independence Continues
August 26 2010
New Ideas Welcome in New Orleans
August 25 2010
The Andy Caldwell Show: The Fight for Independence Continues
August 24 2010
August 20 2010
August 20 2010
Let's Talk About "The Mandate"
August 19 2010
The Fight for Independence Continues
August 18 2010
You might be the next biggest loser
August 17 2010
Making the grade means making some changes
August 16 2010
August 12 2010
August 12 2010
August 10 2010
August 9 2010
August 3 2010
Just thought you should know...
August 3 2010
A Translation Guide to Health Care Headlines
August 2 2010
July 29 2010
July 29 2010
July 27 2010
The War of the Sexes... Let's call it off.
July 23 2010
Information Congress Shouldn't Ignore
July 21 2010
July 20 2010
July 16 2010
Is Sarah Palin preaching to the choir?
July 12 2010
July 12 2010
July 9 2010
What Not to Wear with Nicolas Sarkozy
July 7 2010
If the rest of the health care bill didn't scare you...
July 30 2009
Conservatives Want Health Care Reform, Too!
July 24 2009
States' Rights or Civil Rights?
July 23 2009
$1,000,000,000,000 for Lower Quality and Less Choice
July 17 2009
July 17 2009
July 13 2009
More Refreshing than a Dip in the Pool
July 13 2009
Obama and "Energy Independence"
July 8 2009
What Is the Purpose of Marriage?
July 6 2009
Million Dollar Ad Campaign in Nebraska
July 2 2009
How Much Time Does Forgiveness Take?
July 1 2009
Hadley Heath on "Cavuto on Business"
May 16 2012
Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
May 14 2012
Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
May 7 2012
Hadley Heath on FOX News "Happening Now"
May 4 2012
Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
April 26 2012
Hadley Heath on GBTV's "Real News"
April 26 2012
Hadley Heath on GBTV's "Real News"
April 17 2012
Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
April 13 2012
Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
March 20 2012
Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
March 9 2012
Hadley Heath on Family Policy Matters dicussing "Welfare vs. Charity"
February 29 2012
‘Where Are the Women’ on the Mandate?
February 29 2012
‘Where Are the Women? Here We Are!’: Female Experts Speak Out Against Obamacare Contraceptives Rule
February 29 2012
Buerkle, others bash contraception mandate
February 28 2012
Women Speak Out: Obamacare Mandate Tramples on Religious Liberty
February 28 2012
Women Speak Out: Obamacare Tramples Religious Liberty
February 28 2012
Senior Policy Analyst Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
February 17 2012
Hadley Heath on Al-Jazeera English: Is there a war on women's health?
February 6 2012
Senior Policy Analyst Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
February 6 2012
Senior Policy Analyst Hadley Heath on "The Willis Report"
January 30 2012
Does Newt Gingrich Attacking the Media Protect Him?
January 23 2012
Hadley Heath and Eric Kohn on the Guy Benson Show
December 21 2011
December 12 2011
Questioning Romney's Strategy?
December 1 2011
IWF in the News: A Capital Itinerary
August 8 2011
CBN News: Insurance Waivers Reignite Health Care Law Debate
July 19 2011
The Mike Schikman Show: Rationing Board Spells Doom for Medicare
July 19 2011
CBN News: White House to Stop Issuing Health Law Waivers
June 29 2011
IWF in the News: Bachmann: 'Legitimate Candidate' or a Long Shot?
June 15 2011
CBN News: The Economy and the 2012 Race
June 12 2011
June 8 2011
Coffee and Markets: Challenging Obamacare
June 2 2011
What's Up with Terry Lowry: Are Christian Conservatives Wrong to Cut Spending for Social Programs?
May 31 2011
FOX and Friends: Is Palin Running for President 2012?
May 30 2011
The Troy Derengowski Show: Obamacare and Current Events
May 5 2011
The Center For Individual Freedom: The Full Story on ObamaCare
April 15 2011
Politics on the Edge: Equal Pay Day
April 15 2011
IWF in the News: Are Obamacare's Health-insurance Exchange Requirements Unconstitutional?
March 9 2011
IWF in the News: Vinson's Stay: Another Victory
March 1 2011
The Andy Caldwell Show: America Needs Kitchen-Table Budgeting
February 28 2011
IWF in the News: Analyst:Palin-less CPAC May Help Keep Focus More On Issues
February 9 2011
The Andy Caldwell Show: The Great Lie About Social Security
February 8 2011
The Other Side with Charles Butler: Judge Vinson's Ruling on ObamaCare
February 3 2011
The Raffelle Report: Judge Vinson's Ruling on ObamaCare
February 1 2011
The Andy Caldwell Show: Federal Judge in Florida: Obamacare Unconstitutional!
February 1 2011
RTV: Social Security and the Budget
January 24 2011
The Andy Caldwell Show: Teachers Should Think Twice Before Supporting Obamacare
December 21 2010
The Marc Cox Show: The New Tax Deal
December 12 2010
IWF in the News: Obamacare: More for Women, Nothing for Men
December 11 2010
IWF in the News: Does Obamacare Discriminate Against Men?
December 10 2010
Mr. President, Please Stop Subsidizing College
May 7 2012
Millennials — Much Is at Stake With Health Care
March 28 2012
IPAB: A Lesson in Governing Poorly
March 22 2012
Feminists Distorting the HHS Mandate
March 13 2012
Women Speak Out: ObamaCare Tramples Religious Liberty
February 27 2012
Government Charity Isn't Charity
December 29 2011
Appreciating Women's Influence This Holiday Season
November 29 2011
Millennials’ Choice: To Occupy or Not to Occupy?
November 1 2011
Reconsider Hiding Out in Grad School
September 24 2011
For Youth, Slow Economy Means 'No We Can't'
August 31 2011
ObamaCare's Rationing Board Spells Doom for Medicare
July 12 2011
The Individual Mandate: ObamaCare's Weakest Link
June 15 2011
IWF in the News: Bachmann: 'Legitimate Candidate' or a Long Shot?
June 15 2011
Constituting America Essay on Amendment XIII
June 6 2011
Stop Wasting Money Implementing What Might Be an Unconstitutional Law
May 10 2011
Uncle Sam Can Help Women by Simplifying and Lowering Taxes
April 19 2011
Politics on the Edge: Equal Pay Day
April 15 2011
Let's Reform Welfare for the Sake of the Poor
April 5 2011
March 24 2011
America Needs Kitchen-Table Budgeting
February 22 2011
IWF in the News: Analyst:Palin-less CPAC May Help Keep Focus More On Issues
February 9 2011
"Don't Tell Me Words Don't Matter."
January 25 2011
State of the Union - If Only...
January 25 2011
Why Doctors Will Support ObamaCare Repeal
January 19 2011
IWF in the News: Obamacare: More for Women, Nothing for Men
December 11 2010
Women's Wish List to Uncle Sam
November 30 2010
November 19 2010
An Uninformed Vote Disrespects Suffragettes and our Founding Fathers
November 2 2010
October 27 2010
Policy Paper No. 32: The Impact of Health Reform on Businesses
October 13 2010
Stiletto Nation: A Fight for All Our Futures
October 6 2010
Obamacare is Making Businesses Sick
October 5 2010
Not All Jobs are Created Equal
September 24 2010
Raising Taxes is Not the Solution to the Budget Problem
September 15 2010
August 12 2010
Taxed to Death... And Then Death-Taxed
August 10 2010
August 10 2009
Policy Focus: How You'll Pay for ObamaCare
February 22 2011
Policy Paper No. 32: The Impact of Health Reform on Businesses
October 13 2010


