Description/Abstract

Jonathan Gruber 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. He delivered this lecture on October 2, 2009, and his references are to Congressional bills that were under consideration on that date. He laid out the universal coverage debate that’s gone on for a long time in the United States; described a new solution that he think they found for Massachusetts; described how the Massachusetts reform works; and how it can be extended nationally. Finally he spent time on the key issues that Congress is facing in fall 2009 trying to take this model to the national level.

Document Type

Policy Brief

Date

2009

Keywords

Twenty-first Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy, health care reform, universal coverage, employer-sponsored insurance benefits, single payer

Language

English

Series

Reports Series

Disciplines

Health Policy

Additional Information

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Center for Policy Research. No. 41/2009

Source

Metedata from RePec

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