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Model the impact of governor romneys landmark health reform legislation. i later served as technical consultant to the u.s. department of health and human services and provided similar support to both the administration and to congress through economic microsimulation modeling of the affordable care act. i did not draft governor romneys health plan and i was not architect of president obamas health care plan. after the passage of the aca i made a series of speeches endeavoring to explain the law...

Glib process about the political process behind health care reform. im noxpert on politics and my tone implied i was which is wrong. in other cases i made mean and insulting comments uncalled for in any context. i sincerely apologize for conjecturing with the tone of expertise and for doing so in such a disparaging fashion. it is never appropriate to make ones self seem more important or smarter by demeaning others. i knew better, i know better, and im embarrassed and im sorry. in addition to ap...

This is not conjecture. is it your purpose today to recant obamacare as a tax? >> it is my purpose today to come forward and elaborate and straighten out interpretation of a series of comments that made and to apologize. >> excellent. lets do that then. lets clarify it. mr. gruber, you made these statements did you not? >> yes, i dont recall exactly -- >> you dont recall. one of them we actually saw on video. do you recall that one? >> yes. >> well, these statements, well enter them for the reco...

For the aca expressly modeled for the citizens of all states to be eligible for tax credits whether served directly by state exchange oar by federal exchange. im not an elected official, nor am i a political advisor. im an economist who ran a complex microsimulation model to help republican and democratic politicians and their advisors understand the impact that their policies would have on health care systems. the recent response to my comments at academic conferences exceeds my relevance in he...

January 18th, you said if youre a state and said if you dont set up an exchange, that means your citizens dont get tax credits but your citizens will pay taxes to support the bill. a tax. october 30th, 2012, we just taxed the insurance companies. they pass it on in higher prices. offset tax breaks we get. very clear, you know, and thats when you went on insulted the american voter to the fact they couldnt understand that basic equation. on october 17th, you said this fill was written in tortured...

Certainly inadvertently, you called it a mistake. we asked for the creation of it, so we can see who created it, who put the numbers together. it took a staffer 20 minutes to find the error once we got passwords to unlock this it wasnt hard to find. the question is, i will be brief, can you ask your people to the extent it has already been pulled, to the extent we issued a subpoena, it already has been pulled, they knew what we wanted could we have it? we have people on both sides of the dais of...

You said in these video comments that essentially you had to deceive in order to get this passed. your models, the 4 million plus dollars that you and mit received including hundreds of thousands of dollars personally to develop and provide those models, if deception was part of the process by your own statements, why should we believe your analysis? why should we not demand to go into the microeconomic analysis and find out whether in fact the $4 million in services you delivered were accurate,...

Marketplace coverage was the term you read in your statement? >> no. >> thank you. mr. gruber, ive been accused that im going to berate you or something and i hope thaw wont feel that way when i get done but the night before last i was at the kennedy center honors where they honored tom hanks, famously, "forrest gump.." the ultimate in successful stupid man. are you stupid? >> i dont think so, no. >> does mit employ stupid people? >> not to my knowledge. >> okay. so youre a smart man who said so...

Cans position on this obamacare issue is today. >> in 2010 the democrats in congress passed the affordable care act to give millions of people health insurance. we banned insurance companies from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions. we established significant new measures to hold down healthcare costs and provided extra assistance to those who needed it. today based on the evidence before us, the aca is work for millions of people who are now covered. according to the "new ...

Testifying today, right? >> he will be joined by the administrators of the medicare services. she does not want to be seated next to mr. gruber. lawmakers are going to put them together and dig down on some of those comments he made about the lack of transparency as it relates to laying out obamacare. the stupidity of the american voters and he believed many law makers did not know what was in balk care or understand the financing of it, then you will have tavenner at a time when many democrats ...