The Patriot Post® · Gruber: Ted Kennedy 'Figured Out a Way to Rip Off the Feds'

MIT professor Jonathan Gruber has been on the hot seat this week for his admissions of leftist deceit in the passage of ObamaCare. But that’s not all. Regarding the passage of Massachusetts’ health care model for ObamaCare, he said, “The dirty secret in Massachusetts is the feds paid for our bill, okay? 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 a year.” Gruber reiterated, “Ted Kennedy [was] delivering about $400 million a year in slush funds.” Remember, it was Gruber’s health care econometric modeling in Massachusetts that got the attention of California and other states, and ultimately landed him a seat at the head of the White House table developing ObamaCare. But obviously Gruber knew the Massachusetts model would not work nationally because Ted Kennedy was robbing the national treasury to pay for the state’s deficit. More…