ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor caught on video calling the American people stupid multiple times, will testify before the House Oversight Committee next month. Gruber agreed to testify on the lack of transparency surrounding the Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare.
In a letter to Gruber, who made millions of dollars advising both state and federal governments on health care, Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked him and Marilyn Tavenner, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service administrator, to appear and answer questions on repeated transparency failures and outright deceptions involving the passage of the law.
The hearing is scheduled to be held on Dec. 9 at 9:30 AM ET.
“From the outset, the health law has been the poster child for this administration’s broken transparency promises,” Issa said in a written statement. Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz will soon take over as chairman of the powerful committee, but not before Issa gets one last chance to expose deceptions reagrding the law.
“Jonathan Gruber, one of ObamaCare’s chief architects, publicly lauded the ‘lack of transparency’ that was necessary to pass the law and credited ‘the stupidity of the American voter’ that allowed the administration to mislead the public,” Issa said. He added, “CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner testified before our Committee that the administration met its goals by enrolling 7.3 million individuals; however, we now know that wasn’t the case.”
Issa says the numbers provided by CMS were deceptive and that he wants both Gruber and Tavenner to explain themselves.
Even though Democrats, including President Obama and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have attempted to downplay Gruber’s role in crafting the law, a simple examination of White House logs show he visited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. more than a dozen times and was paid $400,000 for his work on the project.
