Well, there he goes again. And again.<\/p>\n
And he’s getting paid, too.<\/p>\n
Remember Jonathan Gruber?\u00a0 Apparently the 3 videos I discussed yesterday<\/a> \u2013 showing Gruber repeatedly calling the US public \u201cstupid\u201d \u2013 weren\u2019t all of his past “pearls of wisdom” concerning ObamaCare and\/or US healthcare policy.\u00a0 A couple of more have surfaced.<\/p>\n What does he say in these new “nuggets”? Well, let\u2019s see. In one, he says that the Massachusetts health care system he helped design was a scam from day one and only succeeded because Massachusetts conned the Federal government into paying a big chunk of the cost<\/a>.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the \u201cmoney quote\u201d (pun intentional; material in italics<\/em> added for clarity):<\/p>\n “The dirty secret in Massachusetts is the feds paid for our bill, okay?” he [Gruber]<\/em> said. “In Massachusetts we had a very powerful senator you may know named Ted Kennedy. . . . Ted Kennedy and smart people in Massachusetts had basically figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million dollars a year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In another, he openly mocks a critic of single-payer, government-funded healthcare systems, comparing the critic to an adolescent child<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 And very indicative of where Gruber lies (second intentional pun) politically.<\/p>\n Ya know, Gruber sounds to me like your sterotypical arrogant ivory-tower pr!ck who\u2019s never really had much to do with the real world.\u00a0 If I didn’t know better, I’d swear he was a professor at some college in New England who had never really held a job outside academia<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, except for those hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars<\/a> he’s been getting over the past few years for speaking in favor of, performing analysis concerning, and executing various other consulting tasks promoting ObamaCare.<\/p>\n Ya know, to me it almost looks as if he might just have a conflict of interest in that last, or an ethical problem\u00a0vis-\u00e0-vis<\/span> MIT policies.\u00a0 But what do I know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"