This validates much of what critics have said about the health care law, and the tactics used to pass it, for years. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Jonathan Gruber was, by most accounts, one of the key figures in constructing the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. He helped designed the Massachusetts health care law on which it was modeled, assisted the White House in laying out the foundation of the law, and, according to The New York Times, was eventually sent to Capitol Hill to help Congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation. He provided the media with a stream of supportive quotes, and was paid almost $400,000 for his consulting work. Jonathan Gruber, in other words, knows exactly what it took to get the health care law passed. And thats why you should take him seriously when he says, in the following video, that it was critical to not be transparent about the laws costs and true effects, and to take advantage of the stupidity of the American voter in order to get it passed: Heres the full quote: This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO [Congressional Budget Office] scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. 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 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. Video: youtu.be/G790p0LcgbI bit.ly/1uikHHF #Obamacare
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:00:54 +0000
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