Bob Kocher reflects on his tenure as special assistant to the president for healthcare and economic policy on the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He begins with a biographical account leading to his time as partner at McKinsey & Company leading the Global Institute on Healthcare Economics. He recounts his experience learning about hospitals around the world and being on President Obama 's economic policy team, paying special attention to the Affordable Care Act. Kocher discusses the effect of the 2008 recession on government, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the cost of healthcare and the public perception of reform. He details the goals of the Obama administration with healthcare reform, as well as their cooperation with medical groups such as the American Medical Association and with Congress. Kocher also gives insight into the cadillac tax, working with Michelle Obama on Let's Move!, working with the private sector, the Health Data Initiative, and the outcomes of the Affordable Care Act
Presidents--United States; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--United States; Health care reform--United States; Medical care, Cost of--United States; Kocher, Bob; Obama, Barack; National Economic Council (U.S.); McKinsey and Company; Let's Move! (Campaign : U.S.); United States; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2021
Physical Description
68 pages
Note (Biographical)
Bob Kocher served as special assistant to the president for healthcare and economic policy on the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He was also a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led the Global Institute on Healthcare Economics. At t he time of the interview, Kocher is a partner at Venrock, adjunct professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, non-resident fellow and advisory board member at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California, and advisory board member of the National Institute of Health Care Management
Note
Interviewed by Dov Weinryb Grohsgal on December 14, 2021. This interview is part of the Columbia University: Obama Presidency Oral History
Note (Provenance)
Bob P. Kocher, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2022