By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--June 22, 2015
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Gruber was no independent expert. The Obama administration paid him nearly $400,000 as a consultant on Obamacare’s design, especially its new layer of federal health insurance regulation. But Gruber tried to avoid disclosing this conflict in his public commentary and appearances. Democratic officials did as well, in order to maintain the pose that Gruber’s opinions were non-partisan. Indeed, when Sen. Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) specifically asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a list of all its paid consultants, Gruber’s name was mysteriously omitted. The emails obtained from MIT show that on January 8, 2010, Gruber emailed Jeanne Lambrew—the White House’s most important internal employee on Obamacare issues—for advice on how to handle an inquiry from Politico about his lucrative contract. Gruber kept Lambrew and her colleagues apprised of his discussions with Ezra Klein, and Lambrew praised Gruber for “being an integral part” of Obamacare’s development.Part of the deception stems from the fact that the White House wanted Gruber to pass himself off as an "independent expert" during media appearances, when in fact he had a huge contract from the administration and was one of the key architects of the law. When Gruber gave an interview to the gullible Ezra Klein, then blogging for the Washington Post, Klein lapped up Gruber's claims about how ObamaCare would affect non-group insurance rates, and never revealed (if he even knew) that Gruber was working for the administration the whole time. And now, of course, they're desperate to deny Gruber's connection to the design of ObamaCare because if they admit it, then they admit he knew what he was talking about in the video above - and that undermines their argument before the Supremes in King v. Burwell. This whole thing has been built on deception from the beginning, so none of this should surprise anyone. But you're not going to hear about it in the mainstream media so you'll have to spread the word yourself.
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