NBC News on Tuesday finally devoted a segment to covering MIT health economist Jonathan Gruber and his controversial statements regarding the Affordable Care Act’s “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter.”◼ Jonathan Gruber and the Obamacare memory hole - Byron York/Washington Examiner @ByronYork
Gruber, one of the chief architects of Obamacare, appeared before Congress Tuesday to testify on his role in creating the massive healthcare law and his remarks on its questionable passage.
“[I]t is unlikely that most Americans have heard the name Jonathan Gruber until a few weeks ago, when a video emerged of him insulting their intelligence,” NBC News’s Brian Williams said in a Dec. 9 newscast.
Reports that Gruber said at an event in 2013 that Obamacare passed thanks to law’s “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” date back to Nov. 7....
Republicans were hoping to get some answers out of Jonathan Gruber.◼ Jonathan Gruber LIED To Congress About Not Writing Obamacare [VIDEO] - Patrick Howley/Daily Caller
What they got instead was of the nation's foremost experts on healthcare who, for a few hours at least, could barely remember his name.
◼ The 7 Most Awkward Moments in the Jonathan Gruber Hearing - Benny Johnson/National Review
◼ Mark Levin: Phony hearings do NOT replace real action - The Blaze
Many Conservatives Were Happy to Watch Republicans Grill Obamacare Architect — but Mark Levin Is Absolutely Livid◼ Even as NEW Gruber reports emerge: Gruber Paper Found That Aborting Poor Children Saves Taxpayers Money (Video) - Paula Bollard/PJMedia
...At the hearing Gruber was asked by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) about a paper he co-authored in 1998, “Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the ‘Marginalized Child’,” in which Gruber suggested that children who die as a result of abortion are better off because the majority of them would have ended up in single-parent households and living in poverty.
“So, this gets me to another instance where you committed candor,” Massie said in the hearing. “You conclude legal abortion — and birth outcomes among a birth cohort … and on page 26, you state that your research indicates that the legalization of abortion saved the government $14 billion in welfare payments through 1994,” he continued. “Is providing more access to abortion, is that a worthy social outcome to achieve cost savings for the government?”
