November 19, 2014 --

As LPR understands it, Prof. Gruber told a gathering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 that Obamacare could not have been passed except by subterfuge and, in making his comments, he pointed to the "stupidity" of American voters.

President Obama claims to be quite displeased with Prof. Gruber's comment. But then, the president was said to be displeased at reports that the IRS was singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny in their applications for tax waivers. LPR here's Ronald Reagan, from UP Above, telling fourth successor: "There you go again, President Obama."

LPR would note that apparently no one who heard Gruber's remarks when uttered informed on him. LPR concludes that all in attendance were impressed by the Hollywood Ten who, in the late 1940's would not name names. And speaking of the late 1940's, LPR offers the thought that had Henry A. Wallace, as Progressive Party candidate for president in 1948, gotten elected, we would have received the current transformation of government more than 60 years ago -- unless, of course, Congress would have impeached Wallace.

More recently are reports that Prof. Gruber has received heaps of money from Washington and also from various states in connection with his work on Obamacare -- millions of dollars in all, it is believed. For LPR this is just another case of the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few."

There can be little dispute that President Obama claimed, in campaigning for Obamacare, that family premiums will be cut by $2,500 a year, and Americans will be able to keep their doctors and health plans. So, then, are the horror stories about zooming increases in health care costs, with patients losing coverage and physicians, the phony
mutterings of stupid people? Okay, Jonathan Gruber, please explain this front page heading over the lead story in The New York Times, November 15: "COST OF COVERAGE / UNDER CARE ACT / SET TO INCREASE."