Obamacare Architect: Yeah, We Lied to The "Stupid" American People to Get It Passed
Posted by IndianaGary 9 years, 5 months ago to Legislation
[Excerpt] Meet Jonathan Gruber, a professor at MIT and an architect of Obamacare...
"You can't do it political, you just literally cannot do it. Transparent financing and also transparent spending. I mean, this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes the bill dies. Okay? So it’s written to do that," Gruber said. "In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in, you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical to get for the thing to pass. Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not."
Absolutely outrageous!
"You can't do it political, you just literally cannot do it. Transparent financing and also transparent spending. I mean, this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes the bill dies. Okay? So it’s written to do that," Gruber said. "In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in, you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical to get for the thing to pass. Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not."
Absolutely outrageous!
They defrauded the country. Either jail them and cancel their pensions or let the military use them for target practice.
I would like to meet the people who really believed that insurance could provide medical care (not really "insurance") to people who were already sick, but rates would not go up because those claims would paid for in unicorn dust rather than from premiums collected.
...what a perfect epitaph that conclusion will make