The Latest #Grubergate Video Could Rattle Vermont's Single-Payer Health Care Experiment

The hunt for damaging videos of Jonathan Gruber has gained momentum all week. Rich Weinstein's scoop of Gruber discussing the passage of the Affordable Care Act was so rich with themes, so attackable, that any old clip of Gruber seeming to dismiss the intelligence of critics is now fair game. Yesterday, CNN found 2010 footage of Gruber arguing that "quite frankly the American public doesn't actually care that much about the uninsured," and that Democrats needed to be clever in how they sold the law. Today, Watchdog.org's Bruce Parker has produced more recent footage, from 2011, of Gruber laughing off a criticism of Vermont's plan to use the ACA as a ramp to single-payer health care.

The latter video, shot by TrueNorthReports and left to molder on YouTube, captures the chairman of the Vermont House's health committee reading a "commentator" worry about single-payer.