Dr. Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the health care program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was a key architect of Massachusetts's ambitious health reform effort and consulted extensively with the Obama administration and Congress during the development of the Affordable Care Act. He is the author of Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works, illustrated by Nathan Schreiber.

As the Supreme Court considers Obama’s healthcare plan, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber defends the individual mandate as the most sensible, cost-effective, and just approach to fixing health care in this country. Join him for a live chat Wednesday, March 28th at 1 p.m. EDT.