Emails Show Jonathan Gruber
Was Of ‘Key Political Importance’
to ObamaCare
putting MIT economist Jonathan Gruber to work on
Obamacare to be an initiative of such “key political
importance” that it was expedited because of
“political push” from the Obama administration,
emails released by the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) reveal.
The agency released 750 pages of
The agency released 750 pages of
heavily-redacted records on Monday to The Daily Caller and other news outlets in
response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
In one telling exchange after Gruber’s Obamacare work was first reported in 2010,
In one telling exchange after Gruber’s Obamacare work was first reported in 2010,
one HHS analyst told another that having Democrats in charge “across the
board” would “stop some scrutiny” into the arrangement. Gruber’s work attracted
scrutiny because the Obama administration failed to disclose the academic’s support
for the health-care law without disclosing that he was paid $392,000 to help craft it.
The biggest takeaway from the emails is that they undermine one claim made by the
The biggest takeaway from the emails is that they undermine one claim made by the
Obama administration that Gruber was merely a bit player in the development of
Obamacare. Described by many as the “architect” of the health-care law, Gruber
was thrown under the bus after numerous videos surfaced last year of him bragging
that Obamacare was passed because of “a lack of transparency” into the law and
because the American people “were too stupid” to realize they were being manipulated
into supporting it.
Source: The Daily Caller
Source: The Daily Caller
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