
The Cadillac tax was made famous last year by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber who said it was a ploy designed to fool “stupid” American voters. Now the tax is facing a 2-year delay as part of a congressional budget deal, with leading Democrats helping push the deal forward.
by John Sexton9 Dec 2015, 6:40 PM PST0

Contents: Doctors prepare to strike UK’s National Health Service; Veterans’ medical services continue to worsen since 2014 scandal; Obamacare prices skyrocketing in 2016, as I predicted in 2009; Kentucky’s new governor Matt Bevin promises to end Obamacare abuses; Four more Obamacare co-ops collapse in the last week; Obamacare ‘risk corridors’ are also collapsing financially
by John J. Xenakis6 Nov 2015, 6:31 AM PST0

Jonathan Gruber, the White House health care adviser who infamously discussed the “stupidity of the American voter,” lectured at a conference where he instructed journalists on how to report on Obamacare.
by Patrick Howley30 Sep 2015, 8:51 PM PST0

Contents: New York’s Obamacare Co-op collapses, the fourth so far this year; Copper’s crashing prices cause devastating economic ripples around the world; China’s ‘climate change’ promise may already be in trouble
by John J. Xenakis30 Sep 2015, 6:34 AM PST0

When Orszag was named head of the OMB in January 2009, several of Gruber’s Phd. students were left behind at CBO to run its scoring model. Orszag himself moved quickly to make sure that Gruber won a $400,000 no-bid economic modeling contract in March 2009 with the Department of Health and Human Services. Gruber’s job was to create a model that mimicked and predicted the results of the CBO model he himself had designed.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Jun 2015, 3:30 PM PST0

Everyone knew Gruber was critical to ObamaCare, and when he was caught on tape high-fiving himself for helping to fool what he described as “stupid” American voters with the Affordable Care Act’s web of false promises and ludicrous projections, he was speaking from the Administration’s heart.
by John Hayward22 Jun 2015, 6:28 AM PST0

Shumlin’s third term has been marked by a number of high profile health-care related debacles, which include the failing performance of the Vermont Health Connect the state’s Obamacare health insurance exchange and a botched effort to introduce a single-payer health care system.
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Jun 2015, 9:39 AM PST0

Most observers of the legal battle over Obamacare’s subsidies are now familiar with the two clips (one video and one audio) in which economist Jonathan Gruber takes the plaintiff’s side, saying only states which set up an exchange will receive subsidies. But a third example of Gruber saying much the same thing has, so far, received very little attention.
by John Sexton2 Mar 2015, 6:58 PM PST0

Can the folks at Vox count to two?
by John Sexton2 Mar 2015, 1:28 PM PST0

More questions about the architect of ObamaCare. Jonathan Gruber submitted a bill to the state of Vermont at the end of 2014, after he agreed to an amended contract a few weeks earlier.
by Michael Patrick Leahy26 Feb 2015, 4:45 AM PST0

Republican Governor Charlie Baker, who took office in January, has fired embattled Obamacare architect MIT professor Jonathan Gruber from the Massachusetts Health Connector Board. It’s a blow to Gruber, who played a key role in the establishment of the board
by Michael Patrick Leahy25 Feb 2015, 6:42 PM PST0

A health care advocacy group in Vermont wants the state to clean house after an auditor’s report found examples of over billing by ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber.
by Michael Patrick Leahy25 Feb 2015, 2:44 PM PST0

Two Vermont lawmakers want to follow the money — the $100 million their state has spent on health care since ObamaCare was enacted, without improving access to treatment.
by Michael Patrick Leahy24 Feb 2015, 2:57 PM PST0

Lawyer and Vermont Republican Party Vice Chair Brady Toensing reported that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber billed the State of Vermont for hours that “were impossible for him to accomplish” on Monday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. “What we
by Ian Hanchett23 Feb 2015, 5:52 PM PST0

The auditor of the state of Vermont is raising serious questions about Jonathan Gruber’s billing practices. The architect of ObamaCare may have pocked tens of thousands of dollars he said he paid to research assistants.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Feb 2015, 12:12 PM PST0

A state panel in Minnesota was supposed to figure out what went wrong with the state’s launch of MNsure, its ObamaCare-style health program. But the group never bothered to interview Jonathan Gruber, who did modeling for the program, or April Todd-Malmlov, the bureaucrat in charge of Gruber’s work.
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Feb 2015, 6:37 AM PST0

Investigators in Minnesota want to learn more about ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber’s billing and modeling processes. But a key former bureaucrat is refusing to help.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Feb 2015, 8:23 AM PST0

If there is no way to keep government honest, then it is incumbent upon us to keep it weak. Right now, the U.S. has the worst of both worlds: Strong, yet too often dishonest, government.
by John Hayward11 Feb 2015, 10:30 AM PST0

Jonathan Gruber, the architect of ObamaCare, may face more questions from the House Oversight Committee.
by Michael Patrick Leahy3 Feb 2015, 3:22 PM PST0

More trouble for Jonathan Gruber. Now activists from the Left want access to his models so they can try to build a single-payer health care plan in Vermont. Gruber also faces questions from state leaders about his billing practices in Vermont.
by Michael Patrick Leahy30 Jan 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

On Monday Darcie Johnston, head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, told Breitbart News that Gruber may have a “phantom billing” problem. It centers around whether Gruber actually paid $80,000 to assistants. In addition to the state of Vermont, the state of Minnesota, the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee have confirmed and the Inspector General’s Office of the Department of Health and Human Services is considering conducting inquiries into Gruber’s billing practices and consulting contracts.
by Michael Patrick Leahy26 Jan 2015, 10:43 AM PST0

The odds that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber may face charges for padding invoices are going up. Gruber has been paid $160,000 by the state of Vermont, $80,000 of which is for 800 hours of work he claimed in an invoice was performed by unnamed research assistants. But so far Gruber has failed to provide evidence that these research assistants actually exist and did in fact perform work under the contract.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Jan 2015, 8:29 AM PST0

Much of the research assistant work performed for Professor Jonathan Gruber’s 2009 $392,600 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop economic models for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) seems to have been conducted by an employee of the NBER.
by Michael Patrick Leahy31 Dec 2014, 9:17 AM PST0

Gruber’s stonewalling of Vermont comes on the heels of at least four other pending or potential investigations in which the professor has failed to provide documentation requested by authorities.
by Michael Patrick Leahy29 Dec 2014, 11:35 AM PST0

Last Friday, Washington Post fact-checked Jonathan Gruber’s congressional testimony about Obamacare subsidies. After looking at the evidence the Post awarded his explanation two Pinocchios. That’s not a bad outcome given the facts; however, the Post missed something which really should
by John Sexton23 Dec 2014, 4:45 PM PST0