Jonathan Gruber
Obamacare Documents Contradict Ezra Klein's Damage Control Over 'Speak
July 28th, 2014 9:09 PM
Jonathan Gruber absolutely did not mean what he clearly said over and over and over again. That pretty much sums up the left's rationale for "Speak-O" Gruber stating again and again and again that states with federal health care exchanges would not be eligible for subsidies. Of course, Gruber made these quite clear statements before it became obvious that the vast majority of states would…
Obamacare: 2011 GAO Report Confirms 'Speak-O' Gruber
July 27th, 2014 2:13 PM
Liberals are now in damage control mode on the heels of the discovery of not one but two videos of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber claiming in January 2012 that the subsidies for that program were limited to exchanges set up by the states. Their contention is that while Gruber might have worked closely with Congress to create the Obamacare bill, he is still not Congress. The other claim is…
Vox Fails Miserably to Explain Away Obamacare Architect Admitting Subs
July 25th, 2014 11:36 AM
Jonathan Gruber, along with Ezekiel Emanuel, is considered one of the architects of Obamacare. So when he is caught on video admitting the plaintiff's premise of Halbig vs Burwell which was this week ruled in favor of the plaintiffs it went viral on the Web. The court (and Gruber in 2012) agreed that Congress meant that the states would receive subsidies as an incentive to set up their own…
WaPo's Kliff Lets Obamacare Architect Who Promised Cost Savings Totall
January 4th, 2014 9:36 PM
Here's a nice catch by Kyle Wingfield at the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
In late October, continuing a four-year pattern of making such claims, MIT's Jonathan Gruber, who along with Ezekiel "Zeke the Bleak" Emanuel is considered one of the two "architects" of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, pointed to a study which claimed that "the Affordable Care Act is working even better than…
MSNBC’s Alex Witt: ‘Does It Matter’ That Obama Lied About ObamaC
November 5th, 2013 5:58 PM
Leave it to MSNBC weekend anchor Alex Witt to continue marching forward, carrying the flag of ObamaCare as the rollout phase sputters along at a crawl. On Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, the host often came across as a White House publicist, defending both the president and his health care law.
Witt began her show by interviewing Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of both ObamaCare and…
NPR Slants Towards Advocates of Obama's Medicare Plan; Omits Conservat
October 17th, 2012 6:20 PM
Julie Rovner, NPR's resident ObamaCare flack, failed to include any conservatives experts for her report on Medicare on Tuesday's All Things Considered . Rovner played two sound bites each from Drew Altman of the Kaiser Family Foundation and from MIT's Jonathan Gruber, whom the Washington Post named the Democratic Party's "most influential health-care expert." She didn't mention either…
ObamaCare Creator Making Comic Book to Sell the Legislation
February 8th, 2011 11:22 AM
The MIT economist behind much of the concepts involved in ObamaCare is making a comic book to try to get Americans to like his idea.
The Boston Herald reported Tuesday (h/t Jules Crittenden):
Krugman's Evolving 'Conscience': Conservative 'On the Take,' Liberal D
January 14th, 2010 5:24 PM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's double standards: A conservative radio host who was paid by the Bush administration to push its education agenda was "on the take," but a liberal professor paid by the Obama administration while pushing its health care agenda "is no big deal."When it was revealed in January 2005 that conservative radio host and commentator Armstrong Williams was paid $240,…