The now-infamous Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber will have to answer for his past remarks about the “stupidity of the American voter” when he testifies at a House panel in December.
A spokesperson for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee confirmed that Gruber has “agreed to testify” at the panel December 9, as reports The Hill.
Gruber, an MIT professor and former consultant on Obamacare, has been caught on video attributing the passage of the Affordable Care Act to the law’s “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter.”
Gruber was paid almost $400,000 for his work on Obama’s championed health care law.
In addition to the former Obamacare architect, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Marilyn Tavenner will also testify before the committee.
In particular, she will need to address the fact that, according to an investigation done by the committee last week, the Obamacare enrollment numbers had been fudged. They were inflated by almost 400,000 people, which the Obama administration predictably dismissed as an “unacceptable” albeit honest mistake.
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a statement that Gruber and Tavenner will need to explain their “arrogance and deceptions” regarding Obamacare.
“The American people deserve honesty, transparency and respect from those who forced the federal government into their healthcare,” Issa wrote last week. “I expect Mr. Gruber and Administrator Tavenner to testify publicly next month about the arrogance and deceptions surrounding the passage and implementation of Obamacare.”
Though Tavenner will likely defend herself and the Obama administration for these deceptions, Gruber shouldn’t expect any help from her. After all, the president and his Democratic allies have pretty much thrown the MIT professor under the bus.
