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  • When Mitt Romney Convinced Ted Kennedy To Support The Individual Mandate

    09/22/2011 3:04:07 PM PDT · by xzins · 7 replies
    LeftWord ^ | May 31, 2011 at 10:30 am
    ...publishing a series about Massachusetts’ groundbreaking health care reform law. This first piece explains how the idea was hatched — Romney was inspired by Staples founder Thomas G. Stemberg — made its way through the Democratically controlled legislature, was embraced by business groups, and eventually signed into law by Romney on April 12, 2006. Mooney reports that Romney’s political advisers weren’t too keen on Romney — who was even then expected to just serve one term as governor before making a run for the presidency — embracing a traditionally liberal issue, but ultimately settled on what they and Romney saw...
  • Coming Soon: The ObamaCare Comic Book?

    02/09/2011 7:51:48 AM PST · by Lucky9teen · 9 replies
    http://www.theblaze.com ^ | February 8, 2011 at 4:08pm | Jessup Meredith
    The MIT economist credited with crafting President Barack Obama’s national health care overhaul law has reportedly started work on his latest venture: a comic book that explains the law in the simplest of terms. Jonathan Gruber, a health economist who devised Obamacare’s economic structure, says his children inspired him to use the comic format to explain the law to Americans in plain language. “I’m going to use the facts to tell the story,” Gruber, 45, said Monday. “I’m the narrator guiding the reader through the law. It’ll have lots of pictures and text.” According to the Boston Herald, the publishing...
  • Comic treatment for health plan - MIT econ whiz’s hip idea to explain (Commiecare™) overhaul

    02/08/2011 9:51:44 AM PST · by Libloather · 14 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | 2/08/11 | Christine McConville
    Comic treatment for health planMIT econ whiz’s hip idea to explain overhaul By Christine McConville / The Pulse Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - Updated 2 hours ago The MIT economics whiz who crafted President Obama’s national health-care overhaul now plans to explain the complex and controversial plan to the masses — in one long comic book. Jonathan Gruber, a nationally recognized health economist who devised the economic underpinnings of Obamacare (Gruber hates the term), said his three comic-loving kids encouraged him to use the hip format of the graphic novel — basically an expensive comic published in book form —...
  • ATR and CFA to MIT Economist: Give the Money Back

    01/14/2010 2:14:16 PM PST · by U of IL Conservative · 2 replies · 325+ views
    Americans for Tax Reform ^ | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | Sandra Fabry
    ATR and CFA have sent the following letter to Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor who has been under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while touting the Democrats' healthcare plans in the media without disclosing his relations with the administration: Dear Mr. Gruber, In light of the recent revelations that you have been under a $297,600 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while publicly advocating for the Democrats’ healthcare proposals in recent months, we ask that you return the money you received under the contract.... =======> Check out the full piece at ATR.org... Give...