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  • How the WH Used Jonathan Gruber’s Work to Orchestrate the Appearance of Broad Consensus

    11/13/2014 4:03:56 PM PST · by Lorianne · 11 replies
    Fire Dog Lake ^ | 13 January 2010 | Jane Hamsher
    Far more troubling, however, is the lack of disclosure on the part of the White House, the Senate, the DNC and other Democratic leaders who distributed Gruber’s work and cited it as independent validation of their proposals, orchestrating the appearance of broad consensus when in fact it was all part of the same effort. The White House is placing a giant collective bet on Gruber’s “assumptions” to justify key portions of the Senate bill, which they allowed people to believe was independent verification. Now that we know that Gruber’s work was not that of an independent analyst but rather work...
  • Obama health 'czar' was chief of legally troubled firms

    12/07/2009 10:45:35 PM PST · by Nachum · 8 replies · 358+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 12/8/09 | Chuck Neubauer
    Nancy-Ann DeParle, one of President Obama's chief advocates for the health care reform bill wending its way through Congress, earned more than $6.6 million as a paid director for health care firms, some of which were targeted in government investigations or whistleblower lawsuits on suspicions of billing fraud and other legal problems.