The hits just keep coming for MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, the Obamacare architect under fire for his controversial statements about the health care reform law. Video unearthed today by veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler shows Gruber agreeing that states' opposition to the Medicaid expansion dictated by the federal health law may be race-related. He also claimed states that rejected federal funds for Medicaid wanted 'to punish poor people,' which he said 'really is just almost awesome in its evilness.' The video released by Koffler on his news site, White House Dossier, is the latest in a series of damning videos of Gruber talking about the health care law that have popped up online recently. The comments have top Democrats, including President Barack Obama, disavowing both him and his claims.
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Video shows MIT professor Gruber discussing Obamaçare's Medicaid expansion with the University of Chicago's Harold Pollack in April
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Pollack said there's 'a politics of impunity towards poor people, particularly non-white poor people'
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Gruber agreed moments later, saying,  that’s a great way to put it' and states want to 'punish poor people'
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The economist, who claims he helped write the health care reform law, is already under fire for other insulting Obamacare comments
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President Barack Obama distanced himself from the former White House consultant this weekend, and a former Obama adviser called Gruber stupid
'As one who worked hard to make ACA and its benefits clear, let me say: if you looked up "stupid" in dictionary, you'd find @placeholder's picture,' he wrote.