Obamacare Architect Blames Cancelled Policies on Greedy Consumers

Townhall.com ^ | November 15, 2013 | Michael Schaus

[gov_bean_ counter]

Oh yeah. That’s going to help A LOT.

[PATRIOT1876]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Professor Komrade Jonathan Gruber. Another Leftist lying to the kids as a profession. I hope parents pull their kids out of his class!

[PATRIOT1876]

I thought that you had to have an IQ in AT LEAST double digits to be a professor at MIT

[E. Pluribus Unum]

One thing we cannot allow is for people to make decisions based upon their own best interests.

That's why government has to make those decisions for them.

[edcoil]

How in the world, can a man be raised in this country believing any of that crap?

[Conspiracy Guy]

So Obama supporters have inferior genetics. Hmm. I thought they were just uninformed but he says they are stupid. Ok i give. He is right.

[Dr. Sivana]

This Gruber fellow seems like a pretty smart guy, not everyone is born with the brains to be a prof at MIT. I think it is only fair to adjust his income to match that of a median worker’s in his county.

[kcvl]

Jonathan Gruber

In January 2010, after news emerged that Gruber was under a $297,000 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services, while at the same time promoting the Obama administration's health care reform policies

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. In that year, he was named the 19th most powerful person in health care in the United States by Modern Healthcare Magazine. During the 2008 election he was a consultant to the Clinton, Edwards and Obama Presidential campaigns. 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 his op-ed of December 4, 2008 in the New York Times titled "Medicine for the Job Market", Gruber argued that expanding health insurance, even in these grim financial times would further stimulate the economy.

[Sacajaweau]

No higher taxes for the middle and lower income folks...another lie

[b4its2late]

He’s throwing himself under the bus. What a tool.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I just called Obama to come mow my yard. I can’t figure out how to start the mower.

[Resolute Conservative]

Fag

[WashingtonSource]

Schadenfreude, baby. It’s great to see these intellectual midgets who love Communism exposed for the idiot savants they are.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Good idea.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

so embarrassing in so many ways....

[EGPWS]

As long as one has a penny more wealth than another then one is greedy to these people.
Communism running amok!

[GeronL]

remember that these are commies.

When they say you will be “better off” think of Cuba, North Korea, Argentina, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

—— Gruber was under a $297,000 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services, ——

Great. Now I feel so much better.

[Haiku Guy]

If, for whatever reason, I am likely to have lower medical costs, why should I have to pay more for medical insurance? Should I not be able to contract with an insurance company to prove a product that makes sense for me?

Did we lose a war or something?