Mr. Elmendorf has a well-earned reputation for refusing to tell policymakers what they want to hear; in 2009, for example, he publicly declared that an early draft of Obamacare would increase, not decrease, health-care costs, thus forcing the president and his congressional allies back to the drawing board. This makes it sadly ironic that some on the right now are suggesting that Mr. Elmendorf is a “Gruber ally” — as in Jonathan Gruber, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Obamacare adviser who is under fire for comments suggesting that the administration shaped the legislation deceptively to achieve a favorable CBO “score.” washingtonpost/opinions/douglas-elmendorf-has-been-the-type-of-cbo-leader-congress-needs/2014/11/21/30309f38-70f3-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html
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