More on Jon Gruber

New York Times ^ | January 15, 2010 | Paul Krugman

[gusopol3]

In fact, it’s hard to see who else you could have hired. Modeling health reform is a very detail-driven business: you need a detailed statistical representation of the population, together with detailed estimates of behavioral responses to incentives. Gruber has spent years developing such a model, which is maintained and update at considerable expense. Who else could bring the same resources to bear? Well, I guess the administration could have turned to the Lewin Group, but aside from the fact that Gruber has such sterling academic credentials, Lewin is owned by United Healthcare.

In other words, Gruber is a real authority, and the obvious person to fill a needed role. As I’ve written before, he should have taken more pains to reveal that role. But there was nothing corrupt about the arrangement.

[gusopol3]

I suppose Bela Pelosi now going to claim, "Nevah heard of Krugman."

[gusopol3]

Convoluted argument defending Gruber for taking consultant fees when criticized by leftists for doing so back in 2010. Birds of a feather stick together.

[BunnySlippers]

By Krugman ... So ...

[Uncle Miltie]

Hiring Romney’s leftist condescending pointy headed totalitarian wasn’t such a good plan.

[gusopol3]

shows the high esteem Gruber held in by all the Obamacare proponents, those wiser than ourselves.

[GOPJ]

The New York Times running to Gruber’s defense... who woulda thunk it? /s

[gusopol3]

Maybe Romney don’t need to be thinkin’ on that run in 2016.

[BunnySlippers]

Indeed.

[onyx]

January 15, 2010 = Paul Krugman

Good find.

[gusopol3]

This was 2010, I just wanted to see what Krugman had said about him back at the time; after all, everybody reads Krugman. even Pelosi.

[SpaceBar]

Gruber has spent years developing such a model...

Today's marxist democrat party is making the same mistakes the Soviet Union did, and that was thinking that the whole economy could be operated from one office in the Kremin by twiddling various dials... which it cannot. The millions of invisible hands and self-interest built in to the free market is a living breathing organism, not a fake mock-up using some socialist "academic's" hypothetical "model".

[Paladin2]

Krugman is proof of aliens.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Gruber’s job was to sell a turd to stupid people. It worked. Mr. Krugman, here’s your sign.

[MV=PY]

"Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal"

Clearly fantasy.

[spokeshave]

Gruber has developed a very detailed statistical representation of Obamacare....

A statistician eh....

[spokeshave]

The millions of invisible hands and self-interest built in to the free market is a living breathing organism, not a fake mock-up using some socialist "academic's" hypothetical "model".

What have the dims/progressives/islamist have in common....?

They all want to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand

[Balata]

When Krugman states “Obama is one of the most successful presidents in American history” how could any one respect or gives serious credence to his opinion?

[baddog 219]

[KoRn]

Krugman’s ‘mind’ is an intellectual and philosophical junkyard.....

[smokingfrog]

Hey, we could have just followed the British model and saved all that trouble and expense. Except that most people would like to see a real doctor when they get sick.