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Since 1999, he has been a member of the Washington, D.C.-based Economic and Social Research Institute's advisory panel on Workable Strategies to Expand Health Coverage. He also served on The Century Foundation's Task Force on Medicare Reform, for which he authored a portion of the group's report. He has authored or co-authored a number of journal articles on national health care reform and managed care, working on some of these with Yale School of Management Professor Theodore R. Marmor.
Hacker is also the author of two books: "The Divided Welfare State: The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States" and "The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security." The latter was co-winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration.
The issue of health care reform has interested Hacker since his undergraduate days at Harvard University, where he earned his B.A. During summer breaks, he served as an aide to the chief health policy adviser in the Office of U.S. Representative Ron Wyden and, as a health policy intern with the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee in 1993, examined President Clinton's health care reform plan.
Hacker was an Exchange Scholar in Government 1995-1996 and then came to Yale, where he received his Ph.D. in 2000. He was honored with three awards for his dissertation on "Boundary Wars: The Political Struggle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States." These are the American Political Association's Harold D. Laswell Award, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Dissertation Award and the John Heinz Dissertation Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance. All of the awards recognized Hacker's dissertation as the best one written over a specific period of time on an issue of social and public policy.
Hacker has been a nonresident fellow of the New America Foundation since 2000 (he was a fellow there 1999-2000) and was a junior fellow of Harvard's Society of Fellows 1999-2002. He has been a guest scholar and fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and was a research associate to Harvard professor Theda Skocpol, for whom he analyzed past health care reform efforts in the United States. He also was a health policy and teaching fellow at Harvard's School of Public Health.
The political scientist's other honors include the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association's Political Organization and Parties Section (for scholarship within five years of receiving a Ph.D.), among others.
Hacker's work at Yale this semester includes running a seminar on "The Politics of Public Policy" at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
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