Today on Boston Public Radio:
Jonathan Gruber explained how the passage of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package could lower the cost of the Affordable Care Act. Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT. He was instrumental in creating both Massachusetts’ health-care reform and the Affordable Care Act. His latest book is “Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream.”
Next, we asked listeners for their thoughts on Gov. Charlie Baker’s vaccine eligibility timeline.
Juliette Kayyem discussed Tuesday’s spa and massage parlor killings in Atlanta, updating us on what Georgia officials are learning as they investigate the case. She also talked about a recently declassified intelligence report which found that the Russian government interfered with the 2020 U.S. election. Kayyem is an analyst for CNN, former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and faculty chair of the homeland security program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Art Caplan weighed in on Europe’s suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine and whether it’s safe to send kids back to school with new COVID-19 variants on the rise. Caplan is director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University School of Medicine.
Bina Venkataraman talked about the resurrection of the abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator by The Boston Globe, Ibram X. Kendi and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. She also discussed her editorials on statewide police reform and Boston police overtime. Venkataraman is the editorial page editor at The Boston Globe. Her latest book is “The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead In A Reckless Age.”
We ended the show by talking with listeners about reentering society post-pandemic.
