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Fox News’s Bret Baier reports that the White House and congressional Democrats have been less than transparent over Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber’s ties to the government, repeatedly concealing the MIT professor’s $400,000 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while selling the law to the American people.
Why might they have been quiet about the deal? While Gruber was getting paid a generous fee by the Obama administration to work on the Affordable Care Act, the White House pushed the professor’s work as an objective and impartial analysis of the law. Congressional Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry did the same in committee hearings and on the House and Senate floors. Then-Washington Post reporter Ezra Klein and publications like The Atlantic helped further this narrative.
In other words, Gruber’s obscured relationship with the administration seems to have contributed to the impression of an organic consensus in favor of the law among health-care experts even as the professor was being paid by the law’s most important backer.