Obamacare architect settles fraud charges
From The Daily Caller.
Vermont’s Attorney General has settled the state’s claims of fraud against Jonathan Gruber…one of the chief architects of Obamacare.
Under the terms of the settlement, Gruber will no longer work as a taxpayer-funded economic consultant for the state’s health care system and he won’t seek to be paid any money he might be owed…
For its part under the agreement, the Vermont’s attorney general will not pursue legal action under the Vermont Civil False Claims Act…
State Auditor Doug Hoffer, also a Democrat, originally referred allegations of Gruber’s overbilling to the attorney general.
Donovan, the attorney general and still another Democrat, said his office determined that Gruber did, in fact, violate the Vermont Civil False Claims Act…investigators concluded that Gruber sent two invoices — and possibly more — falsely charging the state and its taxpayers…
[Of Obamacare,] “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” he said during one health care conference.
At another event, Gruber admitted that the Obama administration pushed through the so-called Cadillac tax — a tax on certain premium health care plans — “by mislabeling it, calling it a tax on insurance plans rather than a tax on people, when we know it’s a tax on people who hold these insurance plans.”
Premiums under Obamacare went up 24 percent in 2016. The average number of insurers in each marketplace fell from 5.9 to 3.9.
Nice job, Eric Owens of TDC! I can’t add a thing, except my surprise that the deceptive architect of Obamacare would accommodate my stereotypes so perfectly, as to also be apparently a deceiver/fraud in his personal actions.
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It makes all these obamacare insiders officially, grifters. What a scam this has all been & it’s still going on. With huge institutions now calling for obamacare to be funded again.
& the Democrats & Leftists still support it. They knew that Hillary was corrupt. The info was out there. It makes every single Leftist complicit in multiple crimes. Actual crimes. & they have the gall to keep defending the indefensible. It’s the Democrat way, infected by the Chicago Political Machine. Double the trouble.
Comment by Hanover — August 21, 2017 @ 12:04 pm - August 21, 2017