Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist and architect of ObamaCare who testified in front of the House Oversight Committee earlier this week, said under oath “I am not the architect of ObamaCare.”
However, American Commitment President Phil Kerpan dug up more video of Gruber telling his students at MIT that he has a bias because he “wrote part of the law.”
“What does this bill do?” Gruber facetiously self-questioned. “This bill tries to…full disclaimer, I’m going to describe objectively but I helped write it. I’ll be objective, I’ll try to be objective but full-disclaimer I was involved in writing the legislation so there is some bias involved here.”
Gruber made headlines after being caught on video bragging that Democrats used a “lack of transparency” and “the stupidity of the American voter” to pass the bill.
Under tough questioning by North Carolina Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry, Gruber admitted that kicking working Americans off of their health insurance plans “was part of the calculation” when designing ObamaCare.
“I concluded there would be churn in the market the entire time,” Gruber said. “We did model that some individuals would lose their existing plans and move to new forms of coverage… I don’t know the national estimate for how many people lost health insurance, so I don’t know how it compares to what I projected.”
In testimony this week, he went on to confirm that he told the White House that people would lose their plans.
“I was present for discussion of those numbers and interpretation of what they meant in terms of how the law would affect individuals,” Gruber said.
Of course, Gruber attempted to argue during the hearing that he was simply trying to appear smarter than he was in front of his students, but even if this wasn’t the fifth video, Americans wouldn’t be buying that excuse.
