Topic: Jacob Hacker

How to Reclaim the American Dream

Elusive prosperity will be the dominant theme in this year's elections. President Obama maintains that his policies have helped a badly wounded...

Giving Back the Tax Cuts: A Guest Post

My colleagues Jacob Hacker and Daniel Markovits have created a cool website called www.GiveItBackForJobs.org that not only includes a useful tool...

Public Option

is part of the health care reform proposal for all uninsured Americans and those who want to change their plan. The public option is a health care plan ((managed by the federal government ) that would compete with private health insurance companies, in ...
With the American health care debate in full force, Big Think thought it an opportune time to put together a package on the subject. Today we roll out two interviews with experts on the industry: Yale political science professor Jacob Hacker, whose ...

The Ideas That Changed Healthcare

Jacob Hacker's 2007 "Healthcare for America" was the rare academic paper that transforms policy debate.

How You Can Help Cure Healthcare

Jacob Hacker recommends concrete steps average citizens can take to improve their own lot..

A Clean Bill of Health?

Yale political science professor Jacob Hacker grades the 2009 House healthcare bill and predicts its fate in the Senate..

Has Obama Delivered on Healthcare?

Jacob Hacker assesses whether the President's healthcare policy has been what the doctor ordered-and what his campaign promised..

America's Sickening Health System

Many of us cling to our "jerry-rigged" system even as it fails us, but early in his career, health reform expert Jacob Hacker saw a clear need for change.

Curing What Ails Health Care

In a conversation with Big Think, Yale political science professor Jacob Hacker-whose 2007 proposal, "Health Care for America," first raised the public option to national prominence-rated the quality of the new bill.. Hacker also ventured a prediction as to the bill's ...