President Gruber Deception, deceit, and prevarication... These are some of the adjectives that have been attached to the Obamacare legislation in the aftermath of a plethora of revealing comments by Jonathan Gruber. Hes the M.I.T economics professor who the New York Times called Mr. Mandate in recognition of the key role he played in crafting the new law, which is formally titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. American Commitment has posted videos of Gruber talking about how the lack of transparency is a huge political advantage - an advantage which helped foist Obamacare on a resistant American electorate. Gruber also talked about how the Cadillac tax was sold as tax on insurance companies when its really a tax on the middle class. In another video Gruber admits that Obamacares subsidies were limited to state-run exchanges only, which bursts another Obama administration lie and might be of interest to the United States Supreme Court as it considers this very issue. Gruber points to the real scandal of Obamacare. Every sensible person knew Obamacares financial underpinnings were a fraud and that the truth was hidden. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously admitted: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it - away from the fog of the controversy. From its inception, its passage, its implementation, and its enforcement, lack of transparency has been essential to keeping Obamacare alive. President Obamas knowing lies about how Americans could keep their doctors and insurance under Obamacare shows that he is no better than Gruber in his contempt for stupid American voters. (Ironically, it was one citizen, offended by Obamas lies (and who lost his insurance), who uncovered the Gruber videos.) Lying isnt transparent and Obama trades in lies. Working for Judicial Watch, I speak from experience that Obamacare is an ongoing cover-up. My quick count shows we had to sue the Obama administration at least 11 times just to get basic information about Obamacare. Forget about any congressional committee, Judicial Watch is the chief oversight body for the Obamacare law. We had to sue to find out how many enrolled on Obamacares first day, to find out about the costs and corruption of Obamacare taxpayer-funded propaganda, to find out about the secret Obamacare meetings that Obama shamelessly promised would be on CSPAN.... You get the picture. When it comes to exposing Obamacare fraud, Judicial Watch has been way out in front, long before the Gruber videos caught deserved public attention. It was almost a year ago that we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeking enrollment figures for the federal health care law. This past May, Judicial Watch released a 106-page document obtained from HHS, revealing that on its first full day of operation, Obamacares Healthcare.gov received only one enrollment. The accuracy of the HHS enrollment figures remains a continuing point of controversy, as the Obama gang cant help but lie about these basic numbers. Not trusting the ethically-challenged Obama administration, we have also released state records revealing high numbers of policy cancellations as a direct result of requirements of Obamacare. Statements in the records, which include filings by health insurance companies with state regulators, directly contradict claims by the Obama administration and its allies that Obamacare was not responsible for Americans losing health insurance coverage. These new records were obtained as part of a nationwide Judicial Watch investigation to assess the damage wrought by Obamacare to the insurance marketplace. In March, we filed two FOIA lawsuits against HHS to obtain information on Obamacare exemptions and security. One lawsuit seeks information about the December 19, 2013, decision by the Obama administration to establish new hardship exemptions that could allow most consumers to escape the Obamacare individual mandate without penalty. The second suit seeks records about security and privacy concerns surrounding Obamacares Healthcare.gov web portal. In September, we released 94 pages of documents obtained from HHS revealing that in the days leading up to the rollout of Obamacare, top Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials knew of massive security risks with Healthcare.gov and yet chose to roll out the website without resolving the problems. Detailed information about these security flaws - previously kept secret - was released to Judicial Watch. We also acquired Sensitive Information - Special Handling memos sent from CMS to Mitre Corporation, the Healthcare.gov security testing company, in which CMS rated political ... damage and public embarrassment to CMS as key factors far exceeding the public welfare in defining Risk Rating priorities. The other part of this story involves the qualifications for Obamacare navigators -the massive sales force the Obama administration deployed to peddle its bogus health care law under the guise of assisting registrants. They personified Grubers point that if youre trying to sell this law, its best not to let the public know what youre really up to. The Obama HHS reportedly hired 50,000 navigators to help (i.e., recruit) applicants enrolling in Obamacare health care plan at a cost of $67 million to taxpayers. We filed a FOIA lawsuit back in March asking for information on the navigators in an effort to reveal what they were really up to. And to make matters even worse, the Obama administration wasnt even honest about the requirements to be an Obamacare navigator and the screenings given to those who are hired. Only under congressional pressure did former HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius reveal the full truth about the navigators backgrounds. At a November 6, 2014, Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sebelius admitted to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) that the federal government conducted no background checks on Obamacare navigators, and it was possible that they could be convicted criminals. The exchange went as follows: Cornyn: So I want to ask you about the navigators ... Isnt it true that there is no federal requirement for navigators to undergo a criminal background check, even though they will receive sensitive personal information from the individuals they help to sign-up for the Affordable Care Act? Sebelius: That is true .... Cornyn: So a convicted felon could be a navigator and could acquire sensitive personal information from an individual unbeknownst to them? Sebelius: That is possible. In January, 2014, National Review reported that as many as 43 convicted criminals were working as Obamacare navigators in California. And in March, Breitbart reported that Obamacare navigators were enrolling clients at Mexican Consulates nationwide, including Mexican nationals. While its encouraging and refreshing to see Grubers comments penetrating into the public consciousness, lets get it on record that your JW was thoroughly documenting Obamacares myriad deceptions, deceits, and prevarications a long time before Mr. Mandate finally let the cat out of the bag.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:58:00 +0000
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