the same street
on which lived (at the same time) James Hansen,
high-ranking NASA scientist and blameworthy
primary architect and shameless promoter of the
now thoroughly discredited theory of
anthropogenic global warming? “..... snip
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/11/educator_heal_thyself.html#ixzz3IyCGlksB
But, unfortunately, that wouldn’t neatly align with his sociological credo. Jonathan Gruber is the son of the New York University Stern Finance Professor (Emeritus) Martin J. Gruber, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia, and was once Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. That’s equivalent to a winning genetic lottery ticket, isn’t it?
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/martin-gruber
Martin J. Gruber is Professor Emeritus and Scholar in Residence at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University where he previously served as Professor of Finance for 45 years.
He is a director, a member of the executive committee and a member of the investment committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Health Reforms May Hurt Uninsured - Study analyzes hospitals in California
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Saturday, January 30, 1993
Author: Jonathan Marshall, Chronicle Staff Writer
Health care reforms under consideration by the Clinton administration could backfire against uninsured patients, a new study of California hospitals suggests.
A move in California in the 1980s to control the upward spiral of medical costs by encouraging price competition produced discounts of nearly 5 percent for paying patients, according to an analysis released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, an academic clearinghouse in Cambridge. Price competition is a key element in ``managed competition’’ and ``managed care’’ scenarios being reviewed by a White House task force led by Hillary Clinton.
At the same time, however, the move to competition also slashed the amount of uncompensated care 36 percent from its expected value.
``The bottom line I want to push is that if you lower the price of care, it may . . . not be unambiguously good if it means kicking out the uninsured,’’ said Jonathan Gruber , a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who authored the study.
(snip)
Isn’t there some definable RICO going on in all this? Mail fraud was how Tom Cruise brought down his crooked lawyer firm.
Video: Illustrating the Success of Health Care Reform
By Jonathan Gruber | January 17, 2012
(Snips from transcript) Gruber speaking:
...will begin the process of controlling health care costs, by setting up health insurance exchanges where insurers will have to compete for your business and moving towards a system of reimbursing doctors based on making you healthier, not how much care they deliver. ...
...Fourth, the ACA will reduce the deficit - by more than $100 billion in the coming decade, through spending cuts and raising taxes on the highest income families. ...
...The ACA is NOT a government takeover of insurance - it represents an expansion of private insurance and will allow those who are happy with their insurance to keep their plans. ...
...The ACA does NOT impose death panels, and in fact helps seniors by filling in the “donut hole” in their prescription drug coverage. ...
...The ACA does NOT force Americans to buy insurance they can’t afford. ...
“But, unfortunately, that wouldn’t neatly align with his sociological credo. Jonathan Gruber is the son of the New York University Stern Finance Professor (Emeritus) Martin J. Gruber, who received his Ph.D. from Columbia, and was once Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. That’s equivalent to a winning genetic lottery ticket, isn’t it?”
That may be.... :); pretty cloistered it seems. The luck of the liberal elite!! Columbia and Harvard....
Gruber’s His wife, Andrea Kauffmann Gruber, is on FB and belongs to a FB group named “We Despise Michele Bachmann” - I thought that was interesting. And her public posts gush over her wonderful husband. Wonder what she’s posting these days?