Did Jonathan Gruber earn almost $400,000 from the Obama administration?

Washington Post Fact Checker ^ | November 14, 2014 | Glenn Kessler

[Cincinatus' Wife]

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber “was paid almost $400,000 by this administration.”

– Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), on Fox News’s “On the Record,” Nov. 12, 2014

Republicans are demanding hearings into videos that have emerged in recent days of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber making impolitic remarks about the Affordable Care Act.

Why should Gruber’s comments matter? Because Gruber is well-known in health-care circles as one of the intellectual godfathers of Obamacare and the very similar law in Massachusetts (sometimes called Romneycare), though people involved in ACA deny he was “an architect” of the ACA. (House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) even claimed she did not know who he is, even though she once had touted his work.)

Barrasso, in the Fox News interview, said Gruber’s comments about the “stupidity of American voter” were so reprehensible that “he ought to just give the money back.”

Did Gruber really earn nearly $400,000 from the administration — and if so, why?

[SNIP]

Barrasso quite accurately pegged Gruber’s contract for advising the administration during the crafting of the Affordable Care Act as “almost $400,000.” He earns a coveted Geppetto Checkmark.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Geppetto Checkmark "Statements and claims that contain “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” will be recognized with our prized Geppetto checkmark."

[Ray76]

$297,600

Here is the Department of Health and Human Services solicitation
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=3032e84fe13f650770acee31c1372a1b&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&ck=

Here is the award
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=3032e84fe13f650770acee31c1372a1b&_cview=0

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Please read the entire article of this thread. It is a real eye opener. It details how many times Gruber’s model has been “sold” around the country.

Not to mention the MILLIONS he’s made with his HHS contract.

Worth the time to read.

[edpc]

Sen. Barrasso was correct, but the last line makes it irrelevant in the WaPo's eyes.

In the meantime, The Fact Checker is wondering why he did not become a health economist. Clearly, Gruber’s model became even more in demand after Obamacare was signed into law.

This fawning praise ignores the fact that his demand is due to the fraud perpetrated by his model in the first place.

[DrDude]

So true. I wonder how much more money was funneled to him via the Slush Fund.

[combat_boots]

I despise these people. Just despise them.

[isthisnickcool]

He’s has been making a lot of money consulting to states too. This guy is to health care what many are to global warming. He is getting paid to push a hoax of his own making.

[DJ MacWoW]

Donate And Keep The Lights On

[WayneS]

No.

He may have been PAID that much, but I venture to say he did not EARN it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

He may have a new gig.

His infamous videos are worth their weight in gold.

[ImNotLying]

Another FR thread above stated that the State of Vermont also paid Gruber $400,000. Is that true? How many others states paid Gruber?

[Buckeye McFrog]

To me this is the MSM preparing the ground for Obamacare to go away. This has been political death to Democrats for three cycles now, and they are desperate to stop the hemorrhage.

[Ray76]

Minnesota $329,000
Wisconsin $400,000
Vermont   $400,000

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/13/editorial-jonathan-grubers-payday/

[DaveA37]

I’m curious, why in hell would Gruber be saying all this about “stupid voters” when he knows it goes against the demodummies? Either he is dumber than a box of rocks or is on a vendetta to punish the demodummies. Maybe they didn’t pay him any of that money he supposedly earned.

[az_gila]

I’m curious, why in hell would Gruber be saying all this about “stupid voters” when he knows it goes against the demodummies? Either he is dumber than a box of rocks or is on a vendetta to punish the demodummies. Maybe they didn’t pay him any of that money he supposedly earned.

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Perhaps he just relaxed with a liberal interviewer and the truth accidentally slipped out?

[IMR 4350]

No different than someone recording themselves playing the knockout game.

He enjoys the feeling of committing a crime so he brags about it.

[Hawthorn]

>> Please read the entire article of this thread. <<

I tried, but the link didn’t work.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/11/14/did-jonathan-gruber-earn-almost-400000-from-the-obama-administration/

[Syncro]

Yeah, kind of hard to do. Looks like O’Dictator’s SS got to the Washington Post.

I wonder if Pelosi’s blatant lies will be scrubbed too.

But I notice now there is a new link to this news, but without the full story.

[Syncro]

It’s baaaaack!