Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Who Uncovered The Gruber Videos?
The man who changed the ObamaCare debate was at a gas station when I reached him, and he wasn鈥檛 dying to talk. 鈥淚 really want to stay out of the limelight,鈥 said Rich Weinstein, a Philadelphia investment adviser. 鈥淭his is not about me.鈥 But it is about him in the sense that if not for one slightly obsessed citizen, we wouldn鈥檛 have the videos of Jonathan Gruber saying the health care law was deceptively designed and its passage depended on the stupidity of the American public. And it is about his frustrating struggle to get that information out to the media. (Kurtz, 11/20)
The person who unearthed the Jonathan Gruber videos isn鈥檛 a political operative or professional opposition researcher 鈥 he is just an angry guy from Philly who says he lost his health insurance because of Obamacare. (McCalmont, 11/20)
A new video has surfaced showing economist Jonathan Gruber, who made controversial comments about how the Affordable Care Act was written, talking about states' opposition to the Medicaid expansion in the law, and the role poverty may play in its success or failure. (11/21)
