Jonathan Gruber has been fired by yet another state.
The now-infamous Obamacare architect has been forced to step down from the Massachusetts health exchange board, as reports WBZ-TV.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) sent a letter Wednesday to Gruber and three other individuals calling on them to resign from the state’s Health Connector board.
While Gruber has been a member of the board since his appointment by former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) in 2006, the other three members were more recent appointees by former Gov. Deval Patrick (D).
In the letter, Baker expressed his gratitude for their work and “for agreeing to resign from the board.”
“As with all incoming administrations, I am establishing a new leadership team and I have instructed those individuals to take a fresh look at the Connector and to implement ideas to improve the operation of that important state entity,” he wrote.
Gruber of course made headlines for weeks when video emerged of the Obamacare architect attributing the Affordable Care Act’s passage to its “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter.”
Though Gruber received some support amid the controversy from his fellow Health Connector board members when they wore heart-shaped pins with his likeness on them, he was fired from consulting gigs in multiple states and scrutinized at a House committee hearing last December.
Gruber, an MIT professor, also faces potential legal action from the state of Vermont for possibly overstating the number of hours he worked on an economic modeling contract.
Now, even in his home state, Gruber appears to have become a pariah.
