He’s a smart guy, everyone says, and he has been a hugely successful economist who clearly knows his health care policy. Better yet, they can ask him about the video that presents the biggest danger of all to the White House: the one where he undermines the Obama administration’s case in the upcoming Supreme Court lawsuit that could bring a screeching halt to subsidies for millions of Obamacare customers.įor just about everyone else who has dealt with Gruber, though-Democrats, academics, policy wonks, and the health care reporters who used to call him regularly for catchy quotes about what the latest Obamacare development really means-the videos are just head-scratchers. For some Republicans, Gruber is a dream witness: All they have to do is play the videos that confirm their worst suspicions about President Barack Obama’s signature health care law-especially the one where Gruber boasts that “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage”-and watch him squirm. He’s going to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify before Darrell Issa’s committee, where he’ll be forced to answer a ton of questions, if he can, about all those things he said. Now America is about to see Gruber in a new role: congressional witness. For a while, Fox News didn’t have to bother running anything else. And who says, ha-ha, voters don’t understand economics. Ever since the videos started popping up, one after another, America has come to know Gruber-the MIT economist who worked closely on both Obamacare and Romneycare-as the guy who thinks voters are “stupid.” And the guy who thinks Obamacare was passed because of trickery. Why the hell did Jonathan Gruber say that? And that? And that? And (sigh) the other thing? Those are the questions on the minds of virtually everyone in the health care world-especially the people who worked the hardest on Obamacare. Urn:oclc:837690209 Republisher_date 20161231135149 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1139 Scandate 20161229020310 Scanner Nather is a senior policy reporter at Politico Pro and author of “ Understanding Obamacare: Politico ’s Guide to the Affordable Care Act.” Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:23:59.9731 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1146816 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed External-identifier
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