Gruber was ?some adviser,? indeed
 

GRUBER WAS ?SOME ADVISER,? INDEED
President Obama on Sunday called Jonathan Gruber ?some adviser who never worked on our staff.? Obama told Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry that he had ?just heard about? the multiple times Gruber was caught on camera bragging about helping the White House exploit ?the stupidity of the American voter? to pass the health law. But that sure doesn?t gibe with new details about the time when Obama summoned Gruber to the Oval Office for an emergency meeting with a handful of top advisers to salvage passage of ObamaCare amid a 2009 breakdown in the Democrat-controlled Congress. Given the president?s hugely crummy reputation for being forthcoming about his signature law, it seems that blowing off questions about what appears to be evidence of an intentional lie in the crafting of the law would be a bad idea.

Gruber was â??some adviser,â?? indeed | Fox News

What exactly was Gruber?s role in the creation of the health law?

Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'

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Gruber was paid almost $400,000 ..... Not bad for just "some advisor"

Cue the nonsensical deflections, raising irrelevant points about republicans + "It's Bush's fault" in 3.... 2.... 1.....

To be fair, thats absolutely nothing at all when you are spending 840 million to build a website.

HealthCare.gov has already cost $840 million - CBS News

Gruber is a cancer. Like most in politics.

He's smarter than us and therefore knows what's better for each and every one of us. That makes it OK to be deceptive.

In that context you're correct, a drop in the bucket compared to total cost.

I guess no one wants to talk about the "not a part of my staff" guy who was paid 400k for helping cobble together the Affordable Care Act who is now talking about how Obama and his administration knew perfectly well that they were lying about everything in it and how it would play out.

Odd.... If a Republican sneezes, we have to hear about it.

What he was paid is nothing, don't care. Was is working on the building of ACA and in knowledge of the lies that were told about it, the promises we were all given that have never materialized?
You can keep your doctor,
You can keep your policy,
You will save $2500 per year for your family.

I'm sure anything Obama says about it now is also a lie!!!

Fact Checker: Did Jonathan Gruber earn â??almost $400,000â?² from the Obama administration?
In any case, the passage of the Affordable Care Act has been lucrative for Gruber and his microsimulation model. All told, he has been hired by at least eight states to provide advice or assist in creating the health-insurance exchanges that are at the heart of the Affordable Care Act: Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Not all of the contracts could be found on public Web sites, but here are a sampling. In some cases, Gruber worked with other consultants, so the fees were shared. These figures also might not represent the final payout. But it?s safe to say that about $400,000 appears to be the standard rate for gaining access to the Gruber Microsimulation Model.

Michigan: $481,050

Minnesota: $329,000

Vermont: $400,000

Gruber has also earned more than $2 million over the last seven years for an on-going contract with HHS to assess choices made by the elderly in Medicare?s prescription-drug plan.