The Patriot Post® · Gruber the Two-Fer

Larry Elder: “For economist Jonathan Gruber, the primary architect and intellectual godfather of both Romneycare and Obamacare, we need a new category. Gruber is a two-fer – both a do-gooder and a rent-seeker. Gruber, so far, has pocketed $6 million advising the federal and state governments on the very law he helped design. Massachusetts retained MIT economist Gruber to help design its signature health care measure. President Obama later employed Gruber to do the same thing for Obamacare, which Gruber called a deficit-reducing measure that bends the cost curve down. But it turns out when Gruber lets his hair down, he speaks very differently about the nature and goals of Obamacare. … In deciding this key issue about state exchanges, the Supreme Court may throw the Gruber’s own words right back at him – and rule Obama’s unilateral reinterpretation unlawful. Then even Pelosi will know Gruber’s name.”