Jacob Hacker: All Publications, Events and Press

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

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:06:00 -0400

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 ...

Leveling the Health Care Playing Field | California Progress Report

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:12:00 -0400

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, ...

Should Health Care Reform Include the Choice of a Public Insurance Plan? | Sacramento Bee

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:10:00 -0400

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

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:21:00 -0400

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 ...

Democrats, GOP Draw Battle Lines on Healthcare Plan | Boston Globe

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:52:00 -0400

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 ...

One (More) Argument for the Public Insurance Option | New Republic

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:10:00 -0400

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 ...

Obama: Soft on Health Insurance?The Early Signs Are Worrying | Slate

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:17:00 -0500

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) ...

It's Time to Fix the 401(k) | CNN Money

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:08:00 -0500

... designed to provide inadequate retirement income for the average worker," says University of California Berkeley political scientist Jacob Hacker. ...

It's Time to Fix the 401(k) | CNN

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:07:00 -0500

... designed to provide inadequate retirement income for the average worker," says University of California Berkeley political scientist Jacob Hacker. ...

CA EVENT: California, the Crisis and the Next Social Contract

Elizabeth Wu — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
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A Road Map to Healthcare Reform

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:34:00 -0500

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.

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

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:54:00 -0500

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 ...

Kennedy's 40 Year Push For Universal Coverage | WBUR

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:56:00 -0500

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 ...

Daschle Pledges a Bipartisan Reform of Heath Care System | International Herald Tribune

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:32:00 -0500

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 ...

Is the Time Finally Right for National Reform? | MarketWatch

Communications — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:17:00 -0500

... 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. ...

New Report: Public Insurance Option Needed to Provide Affordable ... | MarketWatch

Communications — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:34:00 -0500

The report, by health care expert and UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker, says a public health insurance plan like Medicare offered together with private ...

New Report to Highlight Need for Public Health Insurance Plan ... | MarketWatch

Communications — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:43:00 -0500

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 ...

Is 2009 the Year We All Get Health Care? | Esquire

Communications — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:14:00 -0500

With support from an influential economist named Jacob Hacker, Kirsch began organizing with powerful groups like Americans United for Change and the Service ...

Stable Job Hoppers | California Job Journal

Communications — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:45:00 -0500

... 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. ...

Managing Risk in an Unstable World | Human Events

adminn — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:25:00 -0500

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 ...