Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Dr. Jonathan Gruber: Can we control costs in healthcare reform?


Dr. Jonathan Gruber: Can we control costs in healthcare reform?-massdevice:  Harvard Law School rounded up a panel of experts to discuss some of the implications of healthcare reform in the 1st annual Health Law in Review panel discussion. Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist and a healthcare reform advisor to President Barack Obama, said that many of the cost control measure the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act encourages, such as involving consumers in insurance price-point shopping or promoting provider reimbursement based on health behavior of the enrollees, come with "thorny legal issues."