During 2009-2010 he served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration and worked with both the Administration and Congress to help craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. From 2003-2006 he was a key architect of Massachusetts’ ambitious health reform effort, and in 2006 became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for that effort. Gruber was on leave as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department.
In 2006 he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.ĭuring the 1997-1998 academic year, Dr.
He has published more than 160 research articles, has edited six research volumes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy, a leading undergraduate text, and Health Care Reform, a graphic novel. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Econometric Society. He is also the Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and President of the American Society of Health Economists. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. A valuable book to read no matter your political position.Dr.
If you already don't like the ACA, you probably still won't after reading this, but at least you will have a much better understanding of what it does. You have to remember that it was written by someone who helped with the legislation, and can get preachy at times. Review 2: An excellent overview of the various provisions in the ACA in an amazingly easy to comprehend format. The great thing about the book is that you can learn what health care is, but you can also get a grasp on the issue health care has on America because of the comic scenarios. more commend this book to anyone who just wants a basic background knowledge on health care. Also some of the explanations were a bit confusing, but in a way made sense.I would re. Meaning that at times the comics would kind of be out of place and didn't line up with what was trying to be put across. The fact that the book was set up in a comic book format just made it that much easier to understand the point Gruber is trying to get across.The only thing I didn't like about the book was that the book jumped around way to much. The book gives an outline and a sufficient amount of detail to understand the political controversy surrounding the bill.The thing that I liked about the book is that it was easy to follow along and the explanations in the book were great. Review 1: HEALTH CARE REFORM is basically an overview of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) written by Jonathan Gruber.
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