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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
House Oversight Panel Calls On Gruber, Tavenner To Testify On Health Law Claims
Controversy over inflated Obamacare enrollment numbers has renewed demands for the administration to be far more open about sign-up data and other crucial aspects of the health care law. ... The [House Oversight Committee] has called CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and former Obamacare adviser Jonathan Gruber — the center of a separate flare-up over the law’s passage — to testify next month about the “repeated transparency failures and outright deceptions.” (Norman and Pradhan, 11/22)
Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist under fire for comments he made about the Affordable Care Act, is being asked to testify next month before Congress in a probe of the health law. The House Oversight and Government Committee has requested that Mr. Gruber and Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, appear Dec. 9 to testify about “transparency failures and outright deceptions” surrounding the Affordable Care Act, according to a press release issued Friday. (Armour, 11/21)
House Republicans are seizing on the opportunity to tie MIT economist Jonathan Gruber to President Barack Obama after a videos surfaced of Gruber insulting voters and saying Americans were mislead into supporting the President's signature health care law. (Peligri, 11/21)
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked Jonathan Gruber, the economist and Obama administration adviser who admitted that "lack of transparency" helped pass the health law known as Obamacare, to testify about those statements. (Korte, 11/21)
North Carolina’s state auditor on Thursday terminated a contract with Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economics professor and health-care expert whose comments on the Affordable Care Act have generated fury among conservatives. Auditor Beth Wood (D) had hired Gruber to analyze the state’s Community Care of North Carolina program, which provides managed care to the poor and disabled. Gov. Pat McCrory (R) and state lawmakers involved in reforming the state’s Medicaid system were studying whether to include the Community Care program in the reformed system. (Wilson, 11/21)
