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How the WhiteHouse Used Jonathan Gruber’s Work to Create Appearance of Consensus
Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:38 pm
Considering what we now know of Jonathan Gruber, this Jan 2010 article is fascinating.
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How the White House Used Jonathan Gruber’s Work to Orchestrate the Appearance of Broad Consensus
By: Jane Hamsher
January 13, 2010
Up until this point, most of the attention regarding the failure to disclose the connection between Jonathan Gruber and the White House has fallen on Gruber himself. Far more troubling, however, is the lack of disclosure on the part of the White House, the Senate, the DNC and other Democratic leaders who distributed Gruber’s work and cited it as independent validation of their proposals, orchestrating the appearance of broad consensus when in fact it was all part of the same effort.
The White House is placing a giant collective bet on Gruber’s “assumptions” to justify key portions of the Senate bill, which they allowed people to believe was independent verification. Now that we know that Gruber’s work was not that of an independent analyst but rather work performed as a contractor to the White House and paid for by taxpayers, it should be made publicly available so others can judge its merits.
Gruber began negotiating a sole-source contract with the Department of Health and Human Services in February of 2009, for which he was ultimately paid $392,600. The contract called for Gruber to use his statistical model for evaluating alternatives “derived from the President’s health reform proposal.” It was not a research grant, but rather a consulting contract to advise the White House Office of Health Reform, headed by Obama’s health care czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle, to “develop proposals” for health care reform.
How did the feedback loop work? Well, take Gruber’s appearance before the Senate HELP Committee on November 2, 2009, for which he used his microsimulation model to make calculations about small business insurance coverage for his testimony. On the same day, Gruber released an analysis of the House health care bill, which he sent to Ezra Klein of the Washington Post. Ezra published an excerpt.
White House blogger Jesse Lee then promoted both Gruber’s Senate testimony and Ezra Klein’s article on the White House blog. “We thought it would all be a little more open and transparent if we went ahead and published what our focus will be for the day” he said, pointing to Gruber’s “objective analysis.” The “transparent” part apparently stopped when everyone got to Gruber’s contractual relationship to the White House, which nobody in the three-hit triangle bothered to disclose.
But that was child’s play compared to the effort that went into selling Gruber’s analysis of the bill unveiled by the Senate on Wednesday, November 18. Two days later on Friday November 20, Gruber published a paper entitled “Impacts of the Senate High Cost Insurance Excise Tax on Wages: Updated,” claiming that the excise tax would result in wage hikes of $234 billion from 2013 through 2019.
And it was off to the races.
The next day on the 21st, Ron Brownstein wrote in the Atlantic about Gruber’s effusive praise for the cost-cutting measures in the bill: “Everything is in here….I can’t think of anything I’d do that they are not doing in the bill. You couldn’t have done better than they are doing,” says Gruber.
On Monday the 23rd, the DNC was sending the Brownstein column around in its entirety…
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Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:40 pm to NC_Tigah
I bet anything his brother Hans is behind this.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:43 pm to NC_Tigah
Hope this gets all laid out in the coming congressional Gruber hearings.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:50 pm to constant cough
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I bet anything his brother Hans is behind this.
yippee ki-yay, motherfricker
Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:52 pm to NC_Tigah
This Hans and Simon's brother ?
Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:53 pm to constant cough
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I bet anything his brother Hans is behind this.
Get in line, Pal. I'm going for the hat trick
Posted on 11/12/14 at 5:54 pm to constant cough
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I bet anything his brother Hans is behind this.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 6:15 pm to NC_Tigah
Congress needs to go HAM about this.
Seriously, to do nothing about this would be de facto approval of such deceit.
Seriously, to do nothing about this would be de facto approval of such deceit.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 6:23 pm to NC_Tigah
The thing is that anyone paying attention knew all of this at the time.
Just like we knew that there was more to Benghazi than was was being said regarding the video.
Just like we knew about Obama's church and affiliations when he was running for president in 2007-08.
The list goes on and on. The truth is there. It is just not told by the Media and is not packaged for mass consumption.
Just like we knew that there was more to Benghazi than was was being said regarding the video.
Just like we knew about Obama's church and affiliations when he was running for president in 2007-08.
The list goes on and on. The truth is there. It is just not told by the Media and is not packaged for mass consumption.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 6:29 pm to udtiger
From 2013
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October enrollment figures will likely be “very small,” said Sebelius, especially considering the site’s many technical woes.
But health experts say that should be no cause for alarm. Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber, who helped design the Massachusetts health care law that Obamacare is largely based on, said that Massachusetts saw just 123 enrollments in its first month. A full 20 percent of people who signed up in the first year didn’t do so until the very last month of the enrollment period.
“The fact that people aren’t signed up now is not at all interesting or important,” said Gruber on a conference call with reporters. “The success of health care reform has to be measured in months and years, not days and weeks.”
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Posted on 11/12/14 at 6:43 pm to NC_Tigah
So we have known for coming up on 5 years this little bit was a sham?
Posted on 11/12/14 at 6:53 pm to udtiger
There needs to be personal consequences in this.
We, the people, were INTENTIONALLY lied to, only to have obama-scam crammed down our throats.
There needs to be politicans & beauracrats at the highest levels sitting in 8 x 10 jail cells, busting big rocks into little rocks 12 hours a day for 10-15 years.
We, the people, were INTENTIONALLY lied to, only to have obama-scam crammed down our throats.
There needs to be politicans & beauracrats at the highest levels sitting in 8 x 10 jail cells, busting big rocks into little rocks 12 hours a day for 10-15 years.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 7:03 pm to Reubaltaich
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There needs to be politicans & beauracrats at the highest levels sitting in 8 x 10 jail cells, busting big rocks into little rocks 12 hours a day for 10-15 years.
While this seems pretty scuzzy on the surface, what laws did they break?
Posted on 11/12/14 at 7:09 pm to Hawkeye95
Conspiracy. Fraud. Mail and wire fraud. Falsifying government documents.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 7:10 pm to Hawkeye95
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While this seems pretty scuzzy on the surface, what laws did they break?
This might be a stretch, but if any of the deceit was entered into the record under oath would that be perjury?
Just askin.
Posted on 11/12/14 at 7:12 pm to Gray Tiger
Hasn't he been before Congress a time or two?
Posted on 11/12/14 at 7:21 pm to wickowick
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Hasn't he been before Congress a time or two?
i have no idea, but even if he did I am not sure this would pass muster, i mean, did he lie? Did he lie under oath? Who did he lie to?
how far an arm reach does the administration have from this?
I know you guys have the lube and tissues out, jacking off to the idea that obama could be impeached, I just don't see it happening over this.
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