Professor Jonathan Gruber, who is the Ford Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Economics Department at MIT, is our Clarence Tow Public Lecture Series Speaker on the topic of “Health Care Reform Never Ends”.
The Affordable Care Act was the most significant health care reform in the U.S. in half a century, but health care reform is never over. Continued high rates of uninsurance, high health care costs, and poor health care outcomes for many Americans demand continued efforts to improve the U.S. health care system.Professor Gruber will discuss how we got to where we are on health care policy and the central issues facing the U.S. in the coming decade.
Professor Gruber was a key architect of Massachusetts’ ambitious health reform effort. 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. He is also the former Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the former President of the American Society of Health Economists.He was rated as one of the top 100 most powerful people in health care in the United States by Modern Healthcare Magazine in 2006 and 2012 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.
Event details:
When: Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Where: C20 Pomerantz Center
Reception will follow at 6:30 PM.
Attendance is free and open to the public
The event sponsored by the Economics Department in the Tippie College of Business and the Clarence Tow Fund.
We hope to see you there!
