MIT economist and one of the key ObamaCare architects Jonathan Gruber, shown here testifying on the law, has been hammered this week over comments... View Enlarged Image
In this one, ObamaCare architect Gruber explains how the Democrats constantly talked about cost controls in ObamaCare. Why? Because as Gruber correctly explains, "what the American public cares about is costs."
So, he goes on, "even though the bill that they made is 90% health insurance coverage and 10% about cost control, all you ever hear people talk about is cost control."
Gruber said basically the same thing in January, when he told the Washington Post that saying ObamaCare would cut costs was "misleading."
"The law isn't designed to save money," he said, "It's designed to improve health, and that's going to cost money."
This is on top of videos showing Gruber admitting that the mandate is really a tax, that the "Cadillac tax" was just a way to sneak a limit on employer deductions for health costs, and that ObamaCare obfuscated the fact that it was a huge income transfer program from young to old, healthy to sick.
Had all this been made clear, he says repeatedly in these videos, the bill wouldn't have passed.
Maybe, or maybe not. Democrats were determined to get the bill passed at all cost, and did so despite clear opposition from the public and only by using some alarming parliamentary tricks.
But Gruber also managed to inadvertently tell another inconvenient truth about ObamaCare, one that could help bring about its demise.
A couple years ago he explained at a conference how the law only allowed ObamaCare subsidies to be offered through state-run exchanges.
"If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits," he said. "I hope that's blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake in setting up these exchanges."
As it turns out, the Supreme Court is planning to hear a case challenging the subsidies ObamaCare has been passing out through its federal exchange. If they decide Gruber was telling the truth back then, it could unravel ObamaCare. And given his role in crafting the law, Gruber's comments could prove highly influential to the outcome.
As with the more recently revealed comments, Gruber claims he misspoke when talking about subsidies.
Seems as though Gruber's problem is that he keeps telling the truth about ObamaCare, something that its other backers are still careful not to do.
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