Posted on 11/18/2014 12:02:16 PM PST by Kaslin
Before he became the Obama administration's least favorite overpaid expert, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber was its darling. He appeared in an Obama campaign ad saying, "I helped (Massachusetts) Gov. (Mitt) Romney develop his health care reform, or Romneycare, before going down to Washington to help President Obama develop his national version of that law." The false portrayal of Romneycare and Obamacare as practically identical fueled the Democratic delusion that Congress had drafted the Affordable Care Act to appeal to rascally Republicans.
Now Gruber is in the doghouse because he was captured on video being brutally honest. In 2010, Gruber told a panel, "Barack Obama's not a stupid man, OK?" Obama knew the public doesn't care about the uninsured, Gruber said. "What the American public cares about is costs. And that's why even though the bill that they made is 90 percent health insurance coverage and 10 percent about cost control, all you ever hear people talk about is cost control."
Ergo, candidate Obama's 2008 promise that his universal health plan would "bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family."
What happened to those savings? Josh Archambault, senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability, a free market think tank, answered, "We have not seen them yet."
Even in 2008, it was clear that pledge was bogus. The New York Times reported in July, "The health policy advisers who formulated the figure say it actually represents the average family's share of savings not only in premiums paid by individuals, but also in premiums paid by employers and in tax-supported health programs like Medicare and Medicaid." Economist David Cutler admitted to "occasional misstatements" made in service to a desire to "find a way to talk to people in a way they understand."
(Three Harvard professors made a "best guess" as to how much the government, employers and consumers might save when Obama's proposals are fully implemented -- $200 billion annually -- divided by the number of Americans and multiplied by four. Then they let Obamaland talk as if all the savings would go to premium reductions.)
At a different venue, Gruber alluded to the "stupidity of the American voter" for falling for the administration's claim that Obamacare's Cadillac tax on employer-paid health plans would be "a tax on insurance plans rather than a tax on people when we all know it's a tax on people who hold those insurance plans."
Obama whisperer David Axelrod tweeted, "If you looked up 'stupid' in dictionary, you'd find Gruber's picture." For a stupid guy, Gruber sure cashed in. According to Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, the federal government paid Gruber almost $400,000 to consult on the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and another $2 million over seven years to assess Medicare choices.
In 2012, Gruber was a key figure in the making of a myth -- that is, that Democrats drafted Obamacare to attract Republicans, who perversely would not vote for the law, thus forcing Democrats to enact a measure they didn't really want. Chalk that up to the stupidity of the consulting class -- which pays very well.
Mr Obamadork,
Affordable.
You keep using that word.
I do not thin’ it means what you thin’ (if you can thin’ at all) what it means.
This man is guilty of defrauding the American people out of millions of dollars. He should be in prison.
Yes, it’s an IQ test.
It is for Congress who exempted themselves as well as most on the government payroll. No worries.
This guy is now going to do MORE to ‘singularly’ bring down Obamacare (ala Samson at the Temple of Dagon), than anyone else in the entire universe.
” In 2500 years, you can save $2500.00 on your health insurance”
I don’t know if anyone ever thought it was “affordable.” What they thought is that it would be affordable for them because “the rich” were going to pick up the tab for 90%+ of America.
Laws like Obamacare happen because way too many Americans have a mindset of “gimme gimme gimme and make the “rich” pay for it.”
This profesor is just part of the democratic mafia, Obama is the mob boss.
Not a single Republican senator or Congressman voted in favor of that monstrosity called Obamacare. It must be make perfectly clear that democrat Phd com man Gruber, called stupid not all the American voters, but just the democrat voters that put the “Liar in Chief” in the White House, in spite of his Marxist anti-American back ground, and all the Democrats legislators co-conspirators with the president and the MSM in the greatest deception against the American people in the history of the United States.
According to Obama, the MTI professor, a frequent visitor to the White House, was just an adviser. For his “invaluable advise and services” to the Obama administration professor Gruber received over 5.9 million dollars... Stupidity to the to nth power.
Pictured below is what the brain of the GruberCare voters in Congress looks like when examined.
Gruber’s next MIT project — a climate change model for the perpetually stupid.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3227847/posts?page=108#108
Picture of Gruber IN THE OVAL OFFICE with Obama.
One to add to your collection:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3227847/posts?page=108#108
Picture of Gruber IN THE OVAL OFFICE with Obama.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3227847/posts?page=108#108
Picture of Gruber IN THE OVAL OFFICE with Obama.
If you think health care is expensive now just wait until it's free.
RICO baby!!! He and Pelosi and Obama CONSPIRED TO CHEAT AMERICANS!!! RICO!!!!
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