Brought before a House inquisition, MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber burbled a recantation of his beliefs about how that triumph of liberalism had been achieved. Yet, something ...

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C-SPAN junkies were treated to a 4-hour spectacle yesterday as MIT professor Jonathan Gruber navigated the treacherous waters of a hearing before chairman Darrell Issa’s House Oversight and Government ...

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In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber defended the tax on “Cadillac” plans in the healthcare overhaul bill passed by the Senate. The tax is supported by the ...

National Economic Director Gary Cohn, left, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, speaking about the tax plan at the White House on Wednesday. President Trump’s administration released a ...

A difficult part of implementing a new health care law is providing health insurance to the sick and underserved. Steve Inskeep talks with MIT economist and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber. We've ...

Jonathan Gruber, MIT professor and so-called architect of Obamacare, is walking back year-old remarks that the health care system overhaul passed only because of a “lack of transparency” and the ...

Conservatives in recent days have seized upon comments by Jonathan Gruber, an economist at MIT who worked as a consultant on the Affordable Care Act and its predecessor in Massachusetts (ObamaCare and ...

MIT economists Jonathan Gruber (left) and Simon Johnson (right) on Boston Public Radio. On paper, America’s economy seems to be excelling. In March, the economy added 196,000 new jobs while the ...

Jonathan Gruber, sage of MIT and proud champion of the Affordable Care Act, may well have had the worst year in American public life. His repeated demonstrations of arrogance, contempt for the ...