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Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Speaks of Transparency at AHEC 2013 Conference

As part of the 24th Annual Health Economics Conference hosted by PennLDI, Mark Pauly and Jonathan Gruber were featured in the Plenary Panel discussing the role of economics in shaping (and possibly reshaping) the ACA. In this conference, he infamously says that "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.” Oh, and he calls American people stupid.

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Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Speaks of Transparency at AHEC 2013 Conference
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As part of the 24th Annual Health Economics Conference hosted by PennLDI, Mark Pauly and Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber were featured in the Plenary Panel discussing the role of economics in shaping (and possibly reshaping) the ACA.

In this conference, he infamously says that “ Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.”

Oh, and he calls American people stupid.

Skip to 20:15 to skip to the BS.

See below for the conference agenda with links to working papers. See the full AHEC agenda: http://ldi.upenn.edu/ahec2013/agenda

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