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Big Health Insurer's Calls to Members Draws Criticism | Sacramento Bee

April 24, 2009
It's no surprise that wellpoint and other stakeholders would want to take the pulse of the American public, said Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science and co-director for the Center for Health, Economic and Family Security at the University of ...
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Leveling the Health Care Playing Field | California Progress Report

April 13, 2009
This week, UC-Berkeley Professor Jacob Hacker put out a new report called "Healthy Competition", sponsored by the Institute for America's Future. He lays out how a public health insurance option could compete fairly with private insurance, ...
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Should Health Care Reform Include the Choice of a Public Insurance Plan? | Sacramento Bee

March 29, 2009

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Obama Team Looks to Federal Employee Health Program as a Model | Government Executive

March 16, 2009
Jacob Hacker, a health care scholar who advised several Democratic presidential candidates during the 2008 primaries, argued in a December 2008 report that FEHBP was less efficient than Medicare, and Medicare would provide a better model for health ...
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Democrats, GOP Draw Battle Lines on Healthcare Plan | Boston Globe

March 14, 2009
But Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at UC Berkeley, believes there are ways of setting up a hybrid system that allows both public and private plans to thrive. An outside body could set rules for both types of plans to follow and prevent the ...
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One (More) Argument for the Public Insurance Option | New Republic

March 10, 2009
As Jacob Hacker--the idea's intellectual father--notes in a recent paper, experience suggests that effective public programs provide high-quality, cost-effective care. Compared with the fragmented array of private plans, the public sector can reduce ...
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Obama: Soft on Health Insurance?The Early Signs Are Worrying | Slate

March 6, 2009
Jacob Hacker, the Berkeley political scientist who devised the "public plan choice" option adopted first by John Edwards and later by Obama, observed in a recent paper that between 1997 and 2006, "health spending per enrollee (for comparable benefits) ...
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It's Time to Fix the 401(k) | CNN Money

February 16, 2009
... designed to provide inadequate retirement income for the average worker," says University of California Berkeley political scientist Jacob Hacker. ...
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It's Time to Fix the 401(k) | CNN

February 16, 2009
... designed to provide inadequate retirement income for the average worker," says University of California Berkeley political scientist Jacob Hacker. ...
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A Road Map to Healthcare Reform

  • By
  • Jacob Hacker,
  • New America Foundation
February 3, 2009 |

The economic stimulus package just passed by the House contains much to jump-start our economy in the next few years. And congressional moves to expand Medicare eligibility and healthcare for children (through SCHIP) are commendable. But these steps still leave largely unaddressed the most fundamental long-term threat to economic security that President Barack Obama vowed to tackle during the campaign: our crumbling framework of medical financing.

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Some Doctors Contend Medicare Offers a Prescription For Failure | Investor's Business Daily

January 27, 2009
Jacob Hacker, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of a paper advocating an optional public health plan modeled on Medicare, says the number of ...
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Kennedy's 40 Year Push For Universal Coverage | WBUR

January 22, 2009
Harry and Louise illustrate one of three common mistakes that make supporters of health overly optimistic?says Jacob Hacker, an expert on the US political ...
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Daschle Pledges a Bipartisan Reform of Heath Care System | International Herald Tribune

January 8, 2009
Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, said the new option was essential to the success of Obama's effort ...
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Is the Time Finally Right for National Reform? | MarketWatch

December 18, 2008
... 20 years or so," said Jacob Hacker, co-director of the University of California-Berkeley School of Law Center on Health, Economic and Family Security. ...
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New Report: Public Insurance Option Needed to Provide Affordable ... | MarketWatch

December 17, 2008
The report, by health care expert and UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker, says a public health insurance plan like Medicare offered together with private ...
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New Report to Highlight Need for Public Health Insurance Plan ... | MarketWatch

December 15, 2008
Max Baucus, will join health care expert and UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker and Institute for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey on a conference ...
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Is 2009 the Year We All Get Health Care? | Esquire

December 2, 2008
With support from an influential economist named Jacob Hacker, Kirsch began organizing with powerful groups like Americans United for Change and the Service ...
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Stable Job Hoppers | California Job Journal

December 1, 2008
... even those at the top, are at much greater risk of economic reversals than they used to be," wrote Jacob Hacker, professor of political science at Yale. ...
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Managing Risk in an Unstable World | Human Events

November 28, 2008
Which is my answer to those, like Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, who advocate public policies to reduce risk for individuals. In his book "The Great Risk ...
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Jacob Hacker in the New York Times | 'Will the Safety Net Catch Economy’s Casualties?'

November 16, 2008
“Some of the core elements of the social safety net have eroded,” said Jacob Hacker, author of “The Great Risk Shift” and a professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Jacob Hacker in TIME Magazine | 'The New Liberal Order'

November 13, 2008
As Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker has noted, Americans today experience far-more-violent swings in household income than did their parents a generation ago. LINK
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Jacob Hacker in the San Francisco Chronicle | 'Health Care Improvements Have to Wait Awhile'

November 9, 2008
Under the new administration, political conditions for health reform will be far less divisive than they were in the early 1990s, when President Bill Clinton's health plan failed, said Jacob Hacker, political science professor at UC Berkeley who advised the Obama campaign on health issues.
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Jacob Hacker in the Los Angeles Times | 'Health Insurers Reinvent Themselves as Money Managers'

October 22, 2008
"This is a turning point," said Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science at UC Berkeley who has written extensively on healthcare reform. "It's a fundamental shift away from the idea of broadly shared risk. It's going to lead to a complete transformation of the health insurer, which will be increasingly focused on providing management of money." LINK
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Jacob Hacker in San Jose Mercury News | 'Historic Choices on Bay Area's 2008 Ballots'

October 18, 2008

"We've got a black man running for president and a white woman for vice president. We'll make history either way. That's exciting," said Dan Nelson, a network specialist from Sunnyvale. But what Nelson really wants in Washington is change: "I don't like the way things are going now."

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Jacob Hacker in The Washington Independent | 'Collateral Damage'

October 13, 2008
With so much at stake, patient advocates and many health-policy experts say the up-front costs of overhauling an unsustainable health-care system are well worth it.

“It is essential to improving the economy,” said Jacob Hacker, political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of “The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream.” LINK
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