The federal government has paid Jonathan Gruber at least $4 million since the year 2000, for his work as an expert witness, a legal consultant and for his consultation on Obamacare.
That comes on top of at least $1.6 million the MIT economist has been paid by several states to consult on their health care bills.
Gruber, the so-called architect of Obamacare, came under fire this week after a number of videos emerged of him speaking candidly about how Obamacare was passed.
Gruber was paid $392,600 by the Department of Health and Human Services for his work on Obamacare. His main contribution was in the realm of economic modeling to help score the bill for budgetary purposes
In a bombshell video from 2013 published this week, Gruber was seen telling an audience of academics “this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the [Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.”
Gruber also said a lack of transparency was necessary for the bill to pass – “call it the stupidity of the American voter,” he said.
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Obama’s big excuse is that Gruber wasn’t on the White House staff.
Duh!
Almost $6 million duhs!
Obama only brought in a $400,000/year salary.
Gruber would have had to take too big a pay cut to be on ObamaCare’s staff.
No way he’d do that.