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NBC MTP: Health Secretary Burwell: 'I'm Focused on Transparency'
NBC Meet the Press ^ | November 16, 2014 | Shaquille Brewster and Dale Armbruster

Posted on 11/16/2014 7:42:52 AM PST by maggief

The Secretary for Health and Human Services said Sunday morning that she does not agree with controversial comments recently made by one of the architects of health care reform. In an exclusive interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sylvia Mathews Burwell responded to the videos that surfaced this week of MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber in which he criticized American voters and their knowledge of the system.

“I have to start with how fundamentally I disagree with his comments about the bill and about the American people,” Burwell said.

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Critics of the healthcare reform law have used Gruber’s comments to stoke debate about the ACA and a future challenge in Congress. Burwell further pushed back on the comments, saying, “Since I’ve been at the department, one of the things that I’ve focused on is transparency, making sure all of our numbers come out whether they’re good or bad.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burwell; gruber; grubergate; obamacare
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1 posted on 11/16/2014 7:42:52 AM PST by maggief
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2 posted on 11/16/2014 7:44:24 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: maggief

Every once in a while, the truth slips out. This is NOT an article of truth.


3 posted on 11/16/2014 7:44:28 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: maggief

Beware of women with three names...


4 posted on 11/16/2014 7:44:32 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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Obamacare is all about the federal government making decisions on behalf of Americans because -- as Gruber and his liberal brethren would argue -- the stupid people are unable or unwilling to make the choices that elites believe advance the social good.

Obama, and these hate-filled deranged fiends, would have us live our lives as they see fit.

The preening, duplicitous Gruber---the embodiment of cockamamie far-left thinking---apparently believes it’s his moral duty to lie, deceive and collude w/ the US govt......so that these revolting ideas can be imposed on us "sub-mental defectives' taking up valuable space in their Utopian America.

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Obama and the Democratic lock-steppers flat-out invented mechanisms
in Obamacare to serve Marxist Obama's dreams of wealth transfer:

(1) throwing Americans off affordable health plans,

(2) nationalizing 1/6 of the US economy,

3) installing IPAB's (healthcare rationing,

(4) decimating intergenerational transfers of wealth (grandma/pa's holdings go to the govt---not to Americans),

(5) pulling $750 billion out of Medicare,

(6) drug-rationing---death panels,

(8) abandoning seniors and the chronically ill,

(9) forcing healthy young Americans to subsidize healthcare for the elderly.

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CONNECTING THE DOTS---The salient point is this: Gruber acting as an independent researcher is one thing---but Gruber consorting w/ many people in govt figuring out ways to lie in order to to dupe the tax-paying public is a CONSPIRACY.

POINTS TO PONDER: (1) WH sign-in sheets show Gruber went there at least nineteen times. (2) Gruber, himself, talked about Obama being in the room when the Cadillac tax was invented. (3) Based on his Obamacare experiences, Gruber took tax dollars from several states to set up Obamacare exchanges....and earned millions of dollars doing so. (4) Nancy Pelosi is on-tape citing Gruber as a source. (5) Gruber was there when Hillarycare was developed. (6) Another Gruber confession involved a conspiracy w/ Teddy Kennedy to rip-off Medicare to finance Romneycare.

5 posted on 11/16/2014 7:45:21 AM PST by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: maggief

Another lying liar


6 posted on 11/16/2014 7:48:05 AM PST by headstamp 2
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The US government is so transparent we can see right through them ....


7 posted on 11/16/2014 7:51:07 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Travis McGee

I also found out yesterday that Gruber was paid $5.9M in total compensation from the US Government that included his “Gruber Microsystems Model”.

Oh, and Obama says all of this is fantasy because the truth is that there were no lies when this was passed (to us stupid American Voters).


8 posted on 11/16/2014 7:51:35 AM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Beware of women with three names...

Fixed!

9 posted on 11/16/2014 8:03:27 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: SkyDancer
Well at least some of us. Those of us who are not “stupid” according to Gruber.
10 posted on 11/16/2014 8:03:46 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: R0CK3T

So he continues to lie to cover his old lies.


11 posted on 11/16/2014 8:04:54 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: maggief

The bull manure in the White Hut is overflowing.


12 posted on 11/16/2014 8:13:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obolaite...


13 posted on 11/16/2014 8:14:58 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: maggief
Transparency

There's that word again! I don't think it means what they think it means?


14 posted on 11/16/2014 8:57:11 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bushbacker1

Liars lie. Do not be shocked. That is what they do. This LIB fool is into “transparency”? What does this commie feel that today’s definition of “transparency” is?


15 posted on 11/16/2014 9:06:03 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: maggief

I’ve always found it difficult to focus on decent transparency unless using manual focus and even then it is tough to do.


16 posted on 11/16/2014 9:10:21 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: dhs12345

Bammy is a grubernation to the US Constitution by turning the US into a Gruber Nation.


17 posted on 11/16/2014 9:11:21 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: maggief

“I’m focused on transparency...”

“...and how to prevent it.”


18 posted on 11/16/2014 11:23:35 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Liz

Agree for the most part, but 8 and 9 seem to be at odds with one another.


19 posted on 11/16/2014 11:25:09 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Paladin2

Lol.


20 posted on 11/16/2014 12:58:55 PM PST by dhs12345
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