“What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this.”
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Jonathan Gruber
Jonathan Gruber is an American economist known for his contributions to health economics and public policy. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and specializes in healthcare reform, insurance markets, and health insurance economics. more
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