As scandals go, finding out that dental plans were incorrectly added to the sign-up numbers for Obamacare does not, by itself, amount to all that much. Maybe the reason that 380,000 dental subscribers were added to the total numbers was to push the numbers above the 7 million mark, but 6.7 million sign-ups would be nothing …
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Yes Virginia, Jonathan Gruber Was a Key Obamacare Consultant
Peter Suderman has the facts at hand. It is not surprising that Obamacare fans are currently trying to convince the rest of us that Gruber had very little to do with the design and implementation of Obamacare--after all, given the degree to which Gruber has inconvenienced pro-Obamacare forces, it would be positively unnatural if fans …
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More Gruberisms
Oy. In a 2011 conversation about the Affordable Care Act, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of the law more commonly known as Obamacare, talked about how the bill would get rid of all tax credits for employer-based health insurance through "mislabeling" what the tax is and who it would hit. In recent …
More Gaffes by Jonathan Gruber
The theme remains the same: Voters are stupid and had to be misled by the Obama administration and its allies during the fight over Obamacare--for the voters' own good, you understand. As Congress voted on the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in 2010, one of the bill's architects, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, told a college audience …
Jonathan Gruber’s Self-Immolation and Its Policy Consequences
Jonathan Gruber is utterly and completely destroying himself, and is providing massive amounts of ammunition to anti-Obamacare forces. Neat trick, especially considering the fact that he got paid nearly half a million dollars in order to both design Obamacare, and also sell it to the masses. Consider the latest video that has come out regarding Gruber's …
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Why Does Paul Krugman Still Have a Job at the New York Times?
It is a mystery. Intemperate language and pure ignorance are not exactly the ingredients for a persuasive and intelligent column on policy issues--or any other issues, for that matter--but increasingly, Krugman's columns feature little else. Maybe the next time the New York Times wants to put out an editorial about legal issues, they will ask an …
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Why Vote for People Who Think You Are Stupid?
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, who was the key outside consultant to have helped design and push for Obamacare--come on, you remember him--has decided to reveal to the entire planet just what port-side politicians and wonks think about the masses: "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO …
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More Obamacare Failures
Behold: Patricia Wanderlich got insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year, and with good reason: She suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2011, spending weeks in a hospital intensive care unit, and has a second, smaller aneurysm that needs monitoring. But her new plan has a $6,000 annual deductible, meaning that Ms. Wanderlich, who works …
The Banality of Clinton
Hillary Clinton isn't evil, but at the very least, she is doing a spectacular impression of someone who is just utterly vapid. I don't know how anyone can dig up anything resembling a coherent thought from the dirt pile of words that Jennifer Rubin quoted, and I don't know how anyone can conclude that Clinton is …
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