Back in September, I tipped my hat to the Kaiser Family Foundation for its rather outstanding way of explaining the Affordable Care Act via a nine-minute cartoon video. Now Jonathan Gruber, the economist most associated with health reform, wants to top that. According to the Boston Herald, he has a contract to write a graphic [...]
Note/update: A White House official denies that Emanuel has been floating any specific proposal. Says the official: “Rahm continues to speak with members and hear their thoughts, but has not been pushing or advocating one position over another.” Politico reports that, in an effort to rescue what he can of the Obama Administration’s health care [...]
A small scandal is brewing in the health care policy world today concerning Jonathan Gruber, a health care economist at MIT. Gruber has been a source for many, many journalists covering the health care reform debate – including me. As Firedoglake’s Marcy Wheeler reports on her blog emptywheel, Gruber had been working as a government [...]
Over at Kaiser Health News, Jonathan Cohn (with an assist from MIT’s Jonathan Gruber) does the numbers for those who buy on the non-group market (that is, people who don’t get their coverage from their employer):
