Four U.S. states and the federal government have padded Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's wallet to the tune of $5.9 million since 2000, including millions connected to his work on the Affordable Care Act. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist has been pilloried for collecting $392,600 from the Obama administration's Health and Human Services Department while the law was being written, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Gruber's consulting contracts give states and the feds access to a proprietary formula that can determine how changes in a health care system's structure will affect costs. The 'Gruber Microsimulation Model' is what he sold to the White House. It helped Obama's team anticipate what the influential Congressional Budget Office (CBO) would say about various features of the final plan – and whether their costs would officially be considered 'taxes.'
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MIT economist got $392,600 from the Dept of Health and Human Services for his Obamacare consulting
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National Institutes of Health paid him  $2 million for Medicare consulting
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Justice Department has added $1.7 million for expert witness testimony
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Four US states combined to pay him another $1.6 million for advice about health care laws, and contracts for four more states were unavailable
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If those states followed suit, Gruber's haul would exceed $7.5 million
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Gruber has become a thorn in Democrats' sides since videos emerged of him candidly discussing how the Obama White House misled Americans to pass the Obamacare law
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