Jonathan Gruber, the influential and controversial MIT health economist, is among four people that the Massachusetts governor asked to step down from a powerful state commission.
The news, first reported Wednesday by Jon Keller of WBZ-TV, lit up social media. But it’s not clear whether the resignations have much to do with Gruber specifically — or whether they are part of a routine political transition, now that a Republican governor has taken over from a Democratic one.
