Comic treatment for health planMIT econ whiz’s hip idea to explain overhaul By Christine McConville / The Pulse Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - Updated 2 hours ago The MIT economics whiz who crafted President Obama’s national health-care overhaul now plans to explain the complex and controversial plan to the masses — in one long comic book. Jonathan Gruber, a nationally recognized health economist who devised the economic underpinnings of Obamacare (Gruber hates the term), said his three comic-loving kids encouraged him to use the hip format of the graphic novel — basically an expensive comic published in book form —...