[1] His analysis and arguments regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare) have been widely quoted.
[4] He began his legal career at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, where he used litigation and policy reform to improve health care for residents of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood.
As a two-time Fulbright Scholar, he visited Wolfson College, Oxford in 1988–89 and the University of Göttingen in 1996–97.
Beginning in 2009, Jost began contributing to a blog hosted by Health Affairs, a leading health-policy journal, first following the course of the ACA through the legislative process and then explaining its provisions and associated regulations to academics, journalists, policymakers, lawyers, and other readers.
[7] In the words of Don Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Barack Obama, "Tim Jost is to American health care policy what a GPS is to a dark and unfamiliar road; what Carl Sagan was to astronomy; what Barbara Tuchman was to history.