‘Stupidity’ remark leads to free health site work (for Gruber)

Associated Press ^ | Nov 19, 2014 8:00 PM EST | Dave Gram

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An economist who said “the stupidity of the American voter” helped pass the complex federal health care law has agreed to finish his work on Vermont’s health insurance systems for free, a top state official said Wednesday.

But the state will continue to pay assistants working with Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who advised the Obama administration as it crafted the Affordable Care Act.

Vermont will likely end up paying about $280,000 of the original $450,000 the state had agreed to pay Gruber's team and a subcontractor, said Lawrence Miller, director of health reform for Gov. Peter Shumlin. …

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Gruber did not say that “the stupidity of the American voter” helped Obamacare pass, at all. He said lying about the individual mandate so that it would not look like an illegal tax got it passed.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2014/11/19/vermont-paychecks-stop-health-care-consultant-gruber/19281685/

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An economist who said “the stupidity of the American voter” helped pass the complex federal health care law has agreed to finish his work on Vermont’s health insurance systems for free

In an America where the law still mattered ... like seven or eight years ago ... That would be hard to do because he would have beem arrested for fraud by now!

[Jack Hydrazine]

[Liz]

The preening, disdainful Jonathan Gruber colluding w/ govt officials to dupe taxpayers — could cause the demise of Obamacare, as congressional Republicans threaten to hold hearings.

“Congress can subpoena Gruber to testify about the way he used federal money because he got an awful lot of it,” said a Boston College political science professor, WRT reports that Gruber received hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax-funded grants to help states implement Obamacare.

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When Boobamba blathered about O/Care being a "jobs bill"......he was right....except all of the jobs went to Jonathan Gruber.

TAXPAYERS DEMAND CONGRESS GET ANSWERS WRT GRUBER'S CASHING-IN ON THE BACKS OF "STUPID" TAXPAYERS

Four U.S. states and the federal government (read taxpayers) have padded Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's wallet to the tune of $5.9 million since 2000, including millions connected to his work on the Affordable Care Act.

We demand investigations---to pinpoint how our tax dollars changed hands---and landed into Gruber's pockets.

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Even more disturbing is the massive, multi-billion-dollar slush fund the self-serving Gruber hid from "stupid" Americans in Obamacare. Gruber made dam sure it was kept hidden from us stupid taxpayers.

The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest. Egged on by Pelosi, Democrats slavishly voted for Obamacare by an historic straignt-party line vote. But not one Democrat told Americans about Obamacare's Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).

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THE BILLION DOLLAR PAYOFF--WHO GETS THE MONEY? Where is all the money going? Was cashing-in the incentive in getting the thing passed?

WHAT DOES GRUBER KNOW ABOUT THIS?
ACA SEC. 4002. PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH FUND.

(a) PURPOSE. It is the purpose of this section of the ACA to establish a Prevention and Public Health Fund (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Fund’’), to be administered through the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs.

(b) FUNDING.—There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, and appropriated, to the Fund, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated—

(1) for fiscal year 2010, $500,000,000;
(2) for fiscal year 2011, $750,000,000;
(3) for fiscal year 2012, $1,000,000,000;
(4) for fiscal year 2013, $1,250,000,000;
(5) for fiscal year 2014, $1,500,000,000; and
(6) for fiscal year 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, $2,000,000,000.

(c) USE OF FUND.—The Secretary shall transfer amounts in the Fund to accounts within the Department of Health and Human Services to increase funding, over the fiscal year 2008 level, for programs authorized by the Public Health Service Act, for prevention, wellness, and public health activities including prevention research and health screenings, such as the Community Transformation grant program, the Education and Outreach Campaign for Preventive Benefits, and immunization programs.

(d) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—The Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of may provide for the transfer of funds in the Fund to eligible activities under this section, subject to subsection (c).

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The sound of West Wing wire-transfers to offshore banks is almost palpable. Taxpayers demand to know ---- why Gruber/Obama/Pelosi didnt reveal that Obamacare contains a multi-billion dollar slush fund? Exactly who is cashing in?

[DAC21]

Good old Vermont, dumber than a Gruber. This clowns work is based on fraud, his mathematical models would make Michael Mann proud. Yet, onward!