Father Of -OBAMACARE- On Verge Of Officially Becoming - The PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE

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1. You know, Romney gets far too much credit for this

I lived in Massachusetts and knew some (progressive) policy makers: they'd been working on health care reform there for years. Since the Massachusetts state government is entirely controlled by "Democrats" (though that includes some very conservative Democrats who would otherwise be known as Republican on fiscal issues), some kind of health insurance reform was going to happen. Romney responded to it out of necessity for what was inevitable.

The architect of the plan Romney ended up endorsing was Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist. "Gruber is known for his research on the areas of public finance and health economics. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and the author of the widely used textbook, Public Finance and Public Policy. In 2006, he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.[10] He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine in 2005."