Health Care Reform by Jonathan Gruber

Health Care Reform by Jonathan Gruber

You won't have to worry about going broke if you get sick.

We will start to bring the costs of health care under control.

And we will do all this while reducing the federal deficit.

That is the promise of the Affordable Care Act. But from the moment President Obama signed the bill into law in 2010, a steady and mounting avalanche of misinformation about the ACA has left a growing majority of Americans confused about what it is, why it's necessary, and how it works. If you're one of them, buy this book. From how to tame the twin threats of rising costs and the increasing number of uninsured to why an insurance mandate is good for your health, Health Care Reform dispels false fears by arming you with facts.

Dr. Jonathan Gruber is an Economics Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching since 1992. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he directs the Health Care Program. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a Journal of Health Economics Associate Editor. Dr. Gruber has a B.S. in biology. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from MIT and a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Harvard University has a degree in economics. He's been given an Alfred P. In 1994, he received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a National Institute on Aging FIRST fellowship, and the Kenneth Arrow Award for the Outstanding Work in Health Economics. In 1995, he was one of 15 scientists countrywide to earn the National Science Foundation's Presidential Faculty Fellow Award.

In 2005, Dr. Gruber was inducted into the Institute of Medicine, and in 2006, he was awarded the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medial for the nation's top health economist under the age of 40. Dr. Gruber's academic interests include public finance and health economics. He has authored over 125 research papers and edited six research books. Dr. Gruber was on leave from MIT during the 1997-1998 academic year, serving as the United States' Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy.

Department of the Treasury He was a key architect of Massachusetts' ambitious health reform initiative, and he joined the Health Connector Board, the effort's main implementing body, as an inaugural member in 2006. Modern Healthcare Magazine named him the sixteenth most powerful person in health care in the United States that year. He has served as a consultant on multiple presidential campaigns and is regarded as one of America's most important health-care experts by the Washington Post.