Gruber maintains that his being paid by HHS is "completely consistent". Given Tom Daschle's short-lived role in the health care reform effort before he left in disgrace and various other pols around Obama cashing in, it's hard to argue that Gruber is being anything other than consistent here.
One of the key voices for Congressional health care legislation, MIT economist Jon Gruber, is taking fire from the precincts of the left that oppose the Senate plan over the fact that he is on contract with Department of Health and Human Services.
He's been paid $297,600, according to federal documents, to produce "a technical memorandum on the estimated changes in health insurance coverage and associated costs and impacts to the government under alternative specifications of health system reform." The contract, which was awarded June 19, wasn't widely known or regularly disclosed.
How do you give a person 297K to write a technical memo when a bill had not even been drafted, or was the bill drafted and no one saw it except for a select few, and this guy's job was to counteract the CBO's scoring as well as create the data used to prop up hcr? Given the fact that we now have two versions of a bill, each very different, and not 100% clear anything will pass, I am curious to see what this jackazz has done for the past 8 months for almost $300K?
Posted by: x11b1p | Friday, January 08, 2010 at 05:04 PM
Hey, give anybody 300 large for little or no work and they'll tell you grass is orange.
Posted by: KingShamus | Friday, January 08, 2010 at 06:09 PM
Prevention is better than cure... I am curious to see what this jackazz has done for the past 8 months for almost $300K?
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Posted by: Healthy Life | Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 11:49 PM