This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure [the Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. OK? So its written to do that. In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said healthy people are going to pay in — you made explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money — it would not have passed. OK? 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 the thing to pass. Look, I wish ... we could make it all transparent, but Id rather have this law than not. After video of the conference was put online, Gruber elaborated. Read more at snopes/politics/medical/gruber.asp#JaszgFpz9xQWwUg5.99
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:04:56 +0000
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