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Were said, in the end they may be true. and i want to walk you through some of the statements that you made that were substantive in nature rather than the statements that you made about the american voter. now you said that you did complex microsimulation modeling. it sound like relatively basic model to me. you take from one an give to another. bay i can equation of wealth redistribution and that is called a tax. and you have made many statements about the obamacare plan as being a tax. i want to go through those. now i want to remind you, this is not the casual conversation you've had in th...

Provide it? >> i'm not agreeing or disagreeing. i'm saying that something -- >> if you confer with your counsel please. is a requirement before you testify and, as we reviewed your exhibit b, because you didn't use our form and go down it, we don't have all of your income. and since that has become a factor here, would you please, we'll take a moment, we'll take a short break. provide with your counsel to see whether you can affirmatively answer that. >> my counsel informed that my disclosure is complying with the house committee rules. if you have any questions he will be anticipatehappy to a...

Not only an insult to the american people but revealed a pattern of intentional misleading in the the public about the true impact and nature of obamacare which is in many ways you helped craft. today we'll have an opportunity to ask you to apologize for your low opinion of the american people and hopefully apologize for the false information on which the analysis of what the affordable care act would do was built lead together disappointments we see here today. with that i would recognize the ranking member for an opening statement is not here. all members will have 7 days to submit opening s...

Political advantage. call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever. but that was critical to get the thing passed. it's the second best argument. i wish mark was right and we could make it transparent. >> i wish it was right and we made it all transparent. professor jonathan gruber is considered by many as the architect of obamacare. as a former obama administration official put it, professor gruber was the man on obamacare, the guru of healthcare, the official we went on to say i remember that when i was at the white house he was certainly viewed as an important figure in helping to...

Smart man at a great institution, collected over, actually, over $4 million in various fees and so on, your analysis, isn't it true that in order for mr. goldman to get his reduction, and he is very happy about it, in fact it was cost shifting including those so-called cadillac plans, isn't that true? >> affordable care act set up insurance exchanges which pooled risks for healthy and less healthy. on average, when you account for tax credits individuals received people are repaying less. >> i'm a taxpayer, mr. gruber. people like me are not paying less. people are paying more. taxes is a cost...