David Cutler To Serve Obama In D.C. (Harvard Econ, Healthcare)

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Cutler To Serve Obama In D.C.
Economics professor tapped to serve in Obama administration

Published On Friday, January 30, 2009 1:56 AM
By NOAH S. RAYMAN and ELYSSA A. L. SPITZER
Crimson Staff Writers

Noted health care economist and former Dean of the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87 will become the latest Harvard professor to serve in the Obama administration, he said in an interview late last night.

Cutler joins three other members of the economics department already headed to Washington—rounding out a group that includes professors Jeremy C. Stein and Jeffrey B. Liebman, as well as former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who heads the National Economic Council.

“I think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave.

Cutler was one of the chief architects of President Barack Obama’s health care plan—a hot-button issue during the presidential campaign—and said he will continue to work on health care policy in D.C.

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1. Geez are there any professors left at Harvard? Why can't Obama be like bush

and just get new grads from bob jones university?

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2. ... :D

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3. Ow!

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5. LOL!

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4. All Hands on Deck.