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Model the impact of governor romney's 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 romney's health plan and i was not architect of president obama's health care plan. after the passage of the aca i made a series of speeches endeavoring to explain the law's implications for u.s. health care system from the perspective of a trained economist. over the...

Glib process about the political process behind health care reform. i'm 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 one's self seem more important or smarter by demeaning others. i knew better, i know better, and i'm embarrassed and i'm sorry. in addition to apologizing for my unacceptable remarks, i would like to clarify some misconceptions about the con...

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. let's do that then. let's clarify it. mr. gruber, you made these statements did you not? >> yes, i don't recall exactly -- >> you don't recall. one of them we actually saw on video. do you recall that one? >> yes. >> well, these statements, we'll enter them for the record, i can't imagine how you don't recall your own statements because the american voter has see...

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. i'm not an elected official, nor am i a political advisor. i'm 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 health care reform. i behaved badly, i will have to live with that but my own inexcusable arrogance ...

January 18th, you said if you're a state and said if you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't 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 that's when you went on insulted the american voter to the fact they couldn't understand that basic equation. on october 17th, you said this fill was written in tortured way to make sure the cbo did not score the mandate as taxes. if cbo scores the mandate as taxe...