Posted on 11/14/2014 1:16:41 AM PST by SteveH
Pelosi’s comment notwithstanding, few dispute that Gruber played a valued role for the White House and congressional Democrats as the Affordable Care Act was being crafted in 2009 and 2010. He was an economic adviser, helping to calculate how much potential components of the law could cost as policymakers weighed exactly how to construct it.
But while conservatives are all but labeling him the giver of Obamacare in their effort to wring political points out of his statements, Gruber wasn’t the first to suggest such central components as the law’s exchanges, mandates, insurance subsidies and Medicaid expansion.
And, the law’s proponents point out, he was more of a scorekeeper than an actual creator of the law.
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JFKDem1 IndependentModerate • 4 hours ago
Gruber has been cited in no less than 134 Politico articles as an authority on ObamaCare. And starting with a Nov. 17, 2011 article, Politico identified Gruber as an "architect" of ObamaCare. See also Feb. 14, 2012, July 25, 2014, July 28, 2014 and Sept. 4, 2014 Politico articles, all identifying Gruber as ObamaCare's "architect." The Democrats at Politico (and the White House) obviously considered him an ObamaCare architect--until these videos surfaced. Now Politico (and the White House) pretends that they don't know who Gruber is.
Politico, on the cutting edge! /s
Place marker
Romney's real health reform goals differed By KATE NOCERA | 11/17/11 12:58 PM EST
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68606.html
useful idiot kate nocera
I'm with STUPID ==> <== I'm with STUPID
Isn’t it lovely?
Gruber is nothing more than a public whipping boy. South Dakota was passing legislation that assisted in Insurance exchange building clear back in 2007. At that time Senator Tommy Two Tongues Daschle had his fingerprints all over what was to become Obama Care, but was Hillary Care a few years prior. The Governor at the time, has now been elected Senator to replace the outgoing Democrat Tim Johnson.
The Governor in question Mike Rounds has talked the Conservative talk since being challenged in the Senate run by no less than four in the primary and another three in the General. No one with a brain believes the talk based on his two terms as Governor, but the truth has not yet made an appearance in DC as an elected Senator. He did get over fifty percent of the vote in the run for Senate.
Ted Cruz he isn’t, but that is just my opinion.
Jonathan Gruber
Dr. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the Dir ector of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, w here he is a Research Associate, and President Elect of t he American Society of Health Economists. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has published more than 15 research articles, has edited six research volu mes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy , a leading undergraduate text , and Health Care Reform , a graphic novel . In 2006 he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.
During the 1997 - 1998 academic year, Dr. Gruber was on leave as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department. From 2003 - 2006 he was a key architect of Massachusetts’ ambitious health reform effort, and in 2006 became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for that effort . During 2009 - 2010 he served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration and worked with both the Administration and Congress to help craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2011 he was named “One of the Top 25 Most Innovative and Practical Thinkers of Our Time” by Slate Magazine. In both 2006 and 2012 he was rated as one of the top 100 most powerful people in health care in the United States by Modern Healthcare Magazin
Why would MIT keep Gruber on staff any longer if this is proving to be toxic. MIT is supposedly the premiere educational facility in the USA. When I was in seminary RTS- Jackson, I had an Old Testament professor Rankin Duncan, whom graduated from MIT. i had classmates, whose children were going to MIT for Nuclear Engineering. What is going on with MIT to allow their professor to be in a scandal like this. MIT should separate itself from gruber
MIT Procedures for Academic Misconduct (how to terminate Jonathan Gruber tenure)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3226252/posts
MIT and its MIT-Lincoln Labs is inextricably suckled to the government teat at about $2 Billion/year.
Its MIT-LL is what is called a federally funded research center (FFRC -sometimes FFRDC, D for development) where they get likely hundreds of millions per year (budgeted) to perform research tasks for the government - IOW they are captive contractors to the government. It’s one sweet deal.
Good catch!!
She’s one of Gruber’s ‘special’ voters.
In fact, everyone that voted for O’bastard in 2012 is part of Gruber’s ‘special’ army.
Drivebys are completely ignoring this damning video that catches fancynancy in another lie! LOL
Time for DeFund-amental Transformation in America!
Pelosi has gone from a leftist crank to an addled, old leftist crank.
Please keep her as your standard bearer, democrats.
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