About Jonathan
Jonathan Gruber is a leading health economist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he holds the title of Ford Professor of Economics. He is also a key figure at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he directs the Health Care Program. Throughout his career, Jonathan has focused on the economics of health care and has been a major player in shaping health care policy. He is widely known for his role as a technical consultant during the development of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, under the Obama Administration. He was also a chief architect of Massachusetts’ health care reform, which was later used as a model for the ACA. His extensive research combines economics, policy, and health care to understand how these systems work. For his contributions, he was recognized as the best health economist in the nation under 40, receiving the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal in 2006. Jonathan has also been consistently listed by Modern Healthcare Magazine as one of the most powerful people in American health care.
