Melissa Francis, a Fox News anchor, revealed Friday that while she worked at CNBC she was āsilencedā by management for questioning the math of Obamacare while on television. Her announcement is part of the ongoing āGrubergateā news, after the video of Jonathan Gruber surfaced a week ago.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Obamacare āarchitectā Jonathan Gruber is the center of a supposed government scandal regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), some are calling āGrubergate.ā Gruber ignited a controversy with comments suggesting that Obamacare only passed for lack of transparency and stupidity of the American voter.
āCall it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to passā¦ [I wish] we could make it all transparent, but Iād rather have this law than not.ā
Gruberās comments have enflamed the American public and everyone has a response, and even the Obama Administration has chimed in with the White House disputing his claims. Melissa Francisā broadcast arose because she felt ācomplicitā to āGrubergate,ā because she tried to illuminate the cost of Obamacare bill but was stopped from doing that.
āWhen I was at CNBC, I pointed out to my viewers that the math of Obamacare simply didnāt work, not the politics, by the way, just the basic math,ā Francis said.
āAnd when I did that, I was silenced. I said on the air that you couldnāt add millions of people to the system and force insurance companies to cover their preexisting conditions without raising the price on everyone else.ā
āI pointed out that it couldnāt possibly be true that if you like your plan, you can keep it. That was a lie. And in fact, millions of people had their insurance canceled.ā
Francis said that she was reprimanded several times for saying that Obamacare did not add up.
āAs a result of what I said at CNBC, I was called into management where I was told that I was ādisrespecting the office of the presidentā by telling what turned out to be the absolute truth.ā
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