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发帖数: 29846 | 1 WASHINGTON — For ObamaCare “architect” Jonathan Gruber, the health law he
helped design has been the gift that keeps on giving.
Gruber has come under blistering criticism since videos resurfaced of him
saying the law passed due to the “stupidity” of Americans who didn’t
understand its complexity.
Now, a series of government contracts totaling more than $2 million for
consulting services provided by the Harvard-trained economics professor are
coming under scrutiny.
Eight states hired Gruber to help design their health exchanges after he
banked nearly $400,000 in 2009 through contracts with the Department of
Health and Human Services, records show.
Gruber and a handful of colleagues got state contracts totaling $1.6 million
over seven years from Michigan ($481,000), Minnesota ($329,000), Vermont ($
400,000) and Wisconsin ($400,000), The Washington Post reported.
He also advised Colorado, Connecticut, Maine and West Virginia.
It’s not clear how much those states added to his bank account.
Even ObamaCare defenders have been floored by Gruber’s comments captured on
video at academic conferences and TV appearances, where the MIT professor
touted the law and his own brilliance in crafting it.
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” he said at the
University of Pennsylvania in 2013. “And basically, call it the stupidity
of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really
critical for the thing to pass.”
In a 2012 interview on PBS “Frontline,” Gruber bragged about working with
President Obama in the Oval Office to iron out the bill.
“Now, the problem is, it’s a political nightmare . . . and
people say, ‘No, you can’t tax my benefits.’ So what we did a lot in that
room was talk about, well, how could we make this work?”
“And Obama’s like well . . . He’s really a realistic guy,”
he continued. “He’s like, ‘Look I can’t just do this. It’s just not
going to happen politically . . . How do we manage to get there
through phase-ins and other things?’ ” | T*********I
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发帖数: 6760 | 3 麦道夫之流也是民主党忠实支持者。
不知道是什么脑残傻逼把民主党看作代表底层人民利益的，我操 |
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