[Mitworld] New: Gruber on Health Care Policy, Panel on Alternatives to the Electoral College

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 19 | January 4, 2009

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Health Care Policy and the Next U.S. Administration
October 22, 2008

In an energetic talk delivered prior to the U.S. presidential election, Jonathan Gruber provides a useful breakdown of the two candidates’ remedies for the nation’s troubled health care system.  His detailed analysis of the key issues around health care may prove invaluable as the next president assumes office.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/623

Speaker:
Jonathan Gruber
Professor of Economics
MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT

Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"Swimming in the ocean (of medical risk) are 47 million people at risk of drowning at any moment -- the uninsured. The people in the boat (the insured) are waving down at them, and feel sort of bad."
-Jonathan Gruber

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What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a President? (Pt. 3)
October 17, 2008

In part three of this five-part symposium, panelists make the case for a pragmatic compromise between a popular vote and the current Electoral College system, and propose an alternative based on weighted averages.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/628

Speakers:
Arnold I. Barnett PhD '73
George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

David King
Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Alexander S. Belenky
Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals

Alan Natapoff
Research Scientist, MIT

Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"We think the weighted vote share gives popular vote advocates 98% of what they want, and for those who want to uphold the power of small states, more than 100% of what they want."
-Arnold Barnett

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In The Pipeline:
Science Policy and the Obama Administration: Advice to a New President

Presented By:
MIT Center for International Studies

Speaker:
Marc Kastner
Dean, MIT School of Science

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