White House press secretary Sean Spicer told one of the prime architects of the Affordable Care Act to keep his thoughts on Republicans’ attempts to replace Obamacare to himself.
Spicer said Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Jonathan Gruber failed in his attempt to come up with a better healthcare system for the U.S. It’s time for him to focus on his university work, Spicer said.
“The plan he helped create hasn’t done so well for Americans seeking health insurance,” Spicer told reporters on Tuesday.
“Even for the 175 million who get employer-based healthcare, they felt the impact of what he sought out to do by higher prices, fewer choices. Respectfully, I think he should hang out more … at MIT and allow more good ideas to come forward.”
Gruber has criticized the GOP replacement bill as a “scam” and said any replacement bill will end up costing millions of Americans their health insurance.
He became a controversial figure in 2014 after calling the American public “stupid” for not reading the Obamacare bill and understanding the system, allowing the bill to become law.
