Obama Failed to Disclose Financial Relationship of Pro-Obamacare MIT Economist
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As we’ve all grown accustomed to being the rule rather than the exception, Barack Obama didn’t voluntarily disclose the financial relationship, and Obama-adoring reporters didn’t ask.
MIT leaders knew, but they weren’t asked, and surely they weren’t going to cough up the information voluntarily.
And for months, the Boston Globe has known but chose not to report it.
However, now Kay Lazar at the Boston Globe reports:
Jonathan Gruber, a well-known health economist at MIT and a member of the board that overseses Massachusetts’ landmark health overhaul, is being paid nearly $400,000 by the Obama administration even as he is widely quoted nationally advocating the President’s health policies.Gruber has not disclosed the details of his relationship with the administration in many instances and his failure to do so became the talk of Washington bloggers today, after news of his two contracts with the US Department of Health and Human Services first surfaced on the DailyKos and Politico. Gruber is being paid to analyze the costs and effects of various health reform proposals.
Why am I not surprised?
Like a virus, Obama’s disregard for transparency permeates his administration and those that support him.
H/t - Benjamin Hodge
Related: President Obama to America–Read My Lips, No Transparency
