All the " models" cited for enrollment or savings numbers were provided by Gruber who had a contractor relationship with the White House for which he was paid $400, 000. This was at the exact same time as he and the administration presented himself as an independent expert with his own models that just happened to jibe with what the administration was saying. No one realized at the time that this was because Gruber was on the inside producing the numbers telling them what to say in the first place. Without disclosing his conflict. And the "best" journalists and economists fell into lockstep behind this fraud. Repeating Gruber's Obama funded lines over and over.
So it wasn't just accounting fraud or lies about keeping your plan it was even lies about the programs validation by outside experts who were insiders. The press didn't discover this because they didn't want to know. Once again our establishment fails us. More at the link.
http://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbo-effectively-used-gruber-s-model-score-obamacare_819105.html?nopager=1
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