Obama health adviser apologizes for ‘glib’ remarks

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber — an adviser on the president’s health care law — told Congress on Tuesday he was glib and “inexcusably arrogant” when he said it was “the stupidity of the American voter” that led to the law’s passage. Democrats tried to limit the damage as the GOP raked Gruber at a four-hour hearing, but they acknowledged he has given Republicans a political gift “wrapped in a bow.”

 

Gruber told groups in 2012 and 2013 that voter stupidity and a “lack of transparency” were important to passing the legislation without any GOP support.

 

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