Indeed, top Obama advisers, such as Jonathan Gruber and David Cutler, have endorsed premium support for the Medicare program.

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Obamneycare architect Jonathan Gruber is not in a very good mood.

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Pioneering work by two American economists, Jonathan Gruber and David Wise, has shown that retirement decisions are greatly influenced by the structure of pensions and other benefits.

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In July of 2011, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services asked Jonathan Gruber and Gorman Actuarial to estimate the impact of Obamacare on the private insurance market.

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The Romney administration also hired Jonathan Gruber, an M.

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Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues that the new bill may even benefit a bit from the coming merger with the Senate Health Committee's more generous version.

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At a Pioneer Institute event two years ago, Jonathan Gruber went as far as to say that the explicit purpose of the tax was meant to wean the country away from employer based insurance.

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"The entire flexible-spending account thing is a waste of our taxpayer dollars, " says Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former paid consultant on the health law to the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Obama adviser Jonathan Gruber has estimated that, by 2016, the cost of individual-market health insurance under Obamacare, relative to what it would have been under prior law, will increase by an average of 19 percent in Colorado, 29 percent in Minnesota, and 30 percent in Wisconsin.

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