Posted on 06/22/2015 6:20:25 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
When citizen journalist Rich Weinstein exposed Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber in late 2014 for defrauding the country and calling the American voter "stupid," the White House denied he played a major role in writing the legislation and argued he was just "some advisor."
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But new emails, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, reconfirm what we already knew. Gruber played an integral, major role in developing Obamacare.
The emails show frequent consultations between Mr. Gruber and top Obama administration staffers and advisers in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on the Affordable Care Act. They show he informed HHS about interviews with reporters and discussions with lawmakers, and he consulted with HHS about how to publicly describe his role.
The emails, provided by the House Oversight Committee to The Wall Street Journal, cover messages Mr. Gruber sent from January 2009 through March 2010. Committee staffers said they worked with MIT to obtain the 20,000 pages of emails.
“His proximity to HHS and the White House was a whole lot tighter than they admitted,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), chairman of the House oversight committee. “There’s no doubt he was a much more integral part of this than they’ve said. He put up this facade he was an arm’s length away. It was a farce.”
Mr. Chaffetz on Sunday sent a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell requesting information justifying the department’s sole-source contract with Mr. Gruber for his work on the health law.
The emails show Mr. Gruber was in touch with key advisers such as Peter Orszag, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget, an arm of the White House that oversaw federal programs.
He was also in contact with Jason Furman, an economic adviser to the president, and Ezekiel Emanuel, who was then a special adviser for health policy at OMB.
One email indicates Mr. Gruber was invited to meet with Mr. Obama. In a July 2009 email, he wrote that Mr. Orszag had “invited me to meet with the head honcho to talk about cost control.”
As a reminder, Gruber is also the White House advisor and Obamacare architect who said people living in states without Obamacare exchanges are not eligible for federal healthcare exchange subsidies. This is of course at the center of the King v. Burwell Supreme Court battle.
A decision on the case is expected any day now.
For good measure, here's Gruber calling American voters stupid multiple times.
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Only bigger government can save us!
Third video surfaces of ObamaCare consultant slamming US voters
The Hill - Sarah Ferris - 11/12/14
A third video has emerged in which ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber attributes the passage of the healthcare law to the ignorance of American voters, describing it as “basic exploitation.”
Gruber’s comments were related to tax increases for high-cost healthcare plans, known as “Cadillac plans,” which he said would have been politically impossible if voters had been aware of the impact.
“It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter,” Gruber said during a speech at the University of Rhode Island in 2012. “Who are the people going to blame? The evil insurance companies.”
Gruber came under fire earlier this week for saying in 2013 ObamaCare passed because of “the stupidity of the American voter.”
A second video was reported by Fox News on Tuesday night. In that video, Gruber again suggested that American voters were “too stupid to understand the difference” between subsidy caps and insurance companies taxes for the Cadillac plans.
The verb “grubering” has a very ugly connotation.
It would if we had a SCOTUS and politicians that actually followed our laws.
SCOTUS is not in the business of overturning big, nanny-state programs - regardless of how unconstitutional they are. Seems especially true for this Supreme Court
Just a Reminder of him in his Own Words!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adrdmmh7bMo
Gruber and Obama do not have the truth in them.
The White House lied, what a shock!
“For good measure, here’s Gruber calling American voters stupid multiple times.”
At least he got one thing right.
Just some adviser.
Just some guy in the neighborhood.
Lie after lie after lie.
Liar and Thief!
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