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the staff of the Ridgewood
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report that on March 23 at 1pm, a North Haledon resident reported that she had been looking to rent an apartment in Ridgewood and located one using Craigslist.
March 29,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report that on March 23 at 1pm, a North Haledon resident reported that she had been looking to rent an apartment in Ridgewood and located one using Craigslist.
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‘Stupidity’ consultant agrees to testify
By Sarah Ferris – 11/25/14 06:00 AM EST
Jonathan Gruber, the former ObamaCare adviser in hot water for his comments about the “stupidity of the American voter,” has agreed to testify at a House panel next month, setting up a healthcare showdown in what could be the final week of this Congress.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will also hear from Obama administration official Marilyn Tavenner, who is under fire this week for using inflated enrollment figures for the healthcare law.
“Both Mr. Gruber and Administrator Tavenner have agreed to testify,” committee spokeswoman Caitlin Carroll told The Hill.
Both figures have played a role in major political headaches for the Obama administration, which is facing new allegations of “repeated transparency failures and outright deceptions” from Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be grilled for a number of speeches he has given since 2010 that blame the Obama administration for intentionally obscuring details of the healthcare law in order to assure its passage.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/225236-stupidity-consultant-agrees-to-testify
Yes, Jonathan Gruber Is An Obamacare “Architect”
The health law’s allies are trying to distance themselves from the economist’s remarks about the deception involved in passing the law. But they’re only proving him right.
Peter Suderman | November 18, 2014
In the space of a week, Jonathan Gruber has become a non-person in Washington. Until last Monday, the MIT health economist was widely and uncontroversially cited as an “architect” of the Affordable Care Act, a go-toexpert regarding the law’s politics and mechanics. But after multiple videos surfaced in which Gruber said or implied that the bill’s backers relied on deception and an assumption of voter stupidity in order to pass it, Obamacare’s backers moved swiftly to distance themselves from Gruber and downplay his role in the creation of the law.
Asked about Gruber’s videotaped declaration that “lack of transparency” provided “a huge political advantage,” Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responded dismissively. “I don’t know who he is,” she said. “He didn’t help write our bill.” A Wall Street Journal item by Neera Tanden, the president of the liberal Center for American Progress and a former administration staffer, opened by insisting that Gruber “did not make policy, nor did he work for the White House, HHS, or any congressional committee.” Jay Angoff, the former overseer of the health law’s implementation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told Politico that Gruber was neither a legislator nor a staffer. “He’s like 300 million other Americans who can have their opinion.”
Even the president himself weighed in. Responding over the weekend to questions about Gruber’s statements, President Obama pushed back on Gruber’s role, labeling him “some adviser who was never on our staff.” Gruber’s remarks, Obama said, were “not a reflection on the actual process that was run” when crafting and passing Obamacare.
https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/18/yes-jonathan-gruber-is-an-obamacare-arch
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers as Obama Allies
By ROBERT PEARNOV. 17, 2014
WASHINGTON — As Americans shop in the health insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick.
Those same insurers have long viewed government as an unreliable business partner that imposed taxes, fees and countless regulations and had the power to cut payment rates and cap profit margins.
But since the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, the relationship between the Obama administration and insurers has evolved into a powerful, mutually beneficial partnership that has been a boon to the nation’s largest private health plans and led to a profitable surge in theirMedicaid enrollment.
The insurers in turn have provided crucial support to Mr. Obama in court battles over the health care law, including a case now before the Supreme Court challenging the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies on behalf of low- and moderate-income consumers. Last fall, a unit of one of the nation’s largest insurers, UnitedHealth Group, helped the administration repair the HealthCare.gov website after it crashed in the opening days of enrollment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/us/politics/health-law-turns-obama-and-insurers-into-allies.html
Corrections officer, Georgia inmate accused of trying to bilk Bergen County residents
MAY 19, 2014, 7:19 PM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014, 7:19 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
A corrections officer and an inmate from Georgia are accused of being part of a larger conspiracy that involves people posing as law enforcement officers from Bergen County and elsewhere, and asking people to pay court fines to avoid being arrested, authorities said in a news release Monday.
The conspiracy has spread to a dozen states and included calls from people claiming to be from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office asking for payment from people who failed to make court appearances or who missed jury duty, Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino said.
The investigation led to the arrest of Clarinda K. Carter, a corrections officer at Wheeler State Correctional Facility in Alamo, Ga., and Covian J. Camp, an inmate at Autry State Prison in Pelham, Ga., Saudino said.
Authorities believe Carter and Camp “collaborated to target Bergen County residents” and are “the first two arrests in a nationwide scam that we believe will lead to many more arrests in the coming months,” Saudino said.
They each were charged with two counts of second-degree theft by extortion and two counts of fourth-degree impersonating a law enforcement officer, Saudino said.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/corrections-officer-georgia-inmate-accused-of-trying-to-bilk-bergen-county-residents-1.1019236#sthash.XqV4eYqg.dpuf