Posted on 11/14/2014 1:33:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"...The most recent person to distance herself from the embattled MIT economist is Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress, who wrote an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Thursday claiming that “Mr. Gruber was not, as many claim, the architect of the health-care law.”......... [snip of her denial]
[picking up with the facts].....According to Tanden, Gruber provided essential budgetary information that the Congressional Budget Office needed to score the bill.
“The most important arbiter of everything was the C.B.O.,” Tanden told The New York Times for a profile of Gruber.
“We knew the numbers he gave us would be close to where the C.B.O. was likely to come out,” Tanden said.
Other academics cited in that profile indicated that Gruber played a key role in Obamacare’s development.
Princeton sociologist Paul Starr said that Gruber was attached to the mandate saying “it’s his baby.”
“He’s brought a level of science to an issue that would otherwise be just opinion,” another so-called Obamacare architect, Harvard economist David Cutler, told The Times of Gruber. “He’s really the only person who has been doing all this careful modeling for so long. He’s the only person you can go to for that kind of thing, which is why the White House reached out to him in the first place.”
And according Lawrence Summers, Obama’s former director of National Economic Council and the former president of Harvard University, the economic models Gruber had already developed saved the administration time as it was crafting the law.
“Creating a good model from scratch would have taken months, maybe years,” Summers told The Times......
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I hate to point this out....but Gruber is another Harvard graduate. It seems like....they only put out idiots.
Harvard graduate? Wow, that explains a lot.
I’d like to know what he did to get paid over 400K
More lies to keep the stupid people corralled.
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What he did for $400 K of OUR money was to LIE TO US!!! He was just ONE of the Liberals who LIED TO US so that the STUPID people got taken in by FREE HEALTH CARE!!
Nancy Pelosi was obviously in a meeting with this shyster Gruber early on. She knew that the American public was being lied to and kept in the dark. And now we can understand where her comment “we have to pass it to see what’s in it” came from. She was so stupid she let it leak way back before the bill was passed but nobody really related it to Gruber’s actions.
Neera, you are a liar.
IMO, as one of his many duties (including creating PPACA) he also helped develop the terms and conditions by which the CBO was hamstrung in their ‘audit’. They are only allowed to “score” based on very specific instructions and assumptions they HAVE to make.
I don’t think they’re idiots - I think they are ideological zealots suffering from the Harvard/Stockholm syndrome
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