{"id":21979,"date":"2014-11-25T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21979"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:03:30","slug":"jonathan-gruber-to-testify-before-house-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21979\/jonathan-gruber-to-testify-before-house-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Gruber to Testify Before House Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For political junkies, the news that MIT professor and ObamaCare architect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/25\/jonathan-gruber-obamacare-architect-agrees-to-test\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Gruber has agreed to testify<\/a> before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee is must see TV.<\/p>\n<p>Gruber has stirred up a hornet\u2019s nest of negative press for the controversial health care law because of statements he\u2019s made at academic conferences over the last few years. <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21900\/grubergate-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-jonathan-gruber-controversy-in-a-single-two-minute-video\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Helpfully summarized<\/a> by the folks at American Commitment, Gruber\u2019s comments include calling American voters stupid and admitting to writing ObamaCare\u2019s text in a tortured way to avoid a straightforward cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.<\/p>\n<p>Also appearing at the hearing will be Marilyn Tavener, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to explain \u2013 presumably with a straight face \u2013 why revelations that ObamaCare\u2019s reported enrollment of 7 million <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21942\/hhs-caught-padding-obamacare-enrollment-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">inexplicably counted<\/a> 400,000 dental plans. Republicans suspect a bad faith face-saving move since without the incorrectly included dental plans enrollment would have failed to reach CBO\u2019s benchmark estimate.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, December 9, 2014 should be an entertaining day in Washington, D.C. \u2013 if you like to watch contentious oversight hearings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For political junkies, the news that MIT professor and ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber has agreed to testify before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee is must see TV. Gruber has stirred up a hornet\u2019s nest of negative press for the controversial health care law because of statements he\u2019s made at academic conferences over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3308,4613,35,3658],"class_list":["post-21979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-jonathan-gruber","tag-obamacare","tag-oversight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21979"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21988,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979\/revisions\/21988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}