When your government pays someone to tell you how great government health care would be

Would it surprise you to find out that one of the 'expert' economists that the government bought forward to push their health care takeover was actually under contract with the government?
No?
According to FoxNews:

Gruber, according to federal government documents, is under a $297,600 contract until next month to provide "technical assistance" in evaluating health care reform proposals.

Who would have figured that the government would have paid for someone to tell us about how great the government would be at taking over our health care? Huh.