Ooops...Gruber spills the beans

[boedicca]

A rare moment of honest in 2012 is coming back to haunt the Obamanoids:

ruber, as you probably know, was a paid technical advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and an informal advisor to Democrats in Congress. He was also an architect of the Massachusetts reforms, signed into law by then-Governor Mitt Romney, that served more or less as the Affordable Care Act's prototype. The comments from 2012 came during a question-and-answer session, following a lecture he gave at a non-profit research group based outside of Washington. Here’s the key excerpt:

Questioner: You mentioned the health-information [sic] Exchanges for the states, and it is my understanding that if states don’t provide them, then the federal government will provide them for the states.

Gruber: Yeah, so these health-insurance Exchanges, you can go on ma.healthconnector.org and see ours in Massachusetts, will be these new shopping places and they’ll be the place that people go to get their subsidies for health insurance. In the law, it says if the states don’t provide them, the federal backstop will. The federal government has been sort of slow in putting out its backstop, I think partly because they want to sort of squeeze the states to do it. I think what’s important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this[/n]....

Jonathan Gruber on Halbig: Says Quote on Exchanges Was a Mistake | New Republic


Of course, now Gruber is disavowing his statement, but it's clear that the intent was to politically blackmail states into showing support for ObamaCare and setting up their own exchanges.

 

[Wyld Kard]

Jonathan Gruber spills the beans again.

“Lack of transparancy is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever.”

Obamacare Architect Says Health Law Passed Because Of Stupidity Of American Voters

 

[jon_berzerk]

man oh man has the beans spilled

slopped all the way into the white house

as of this evening

--LOL

 

[Rozman]

I wonder if anyone will ask Obama if he agrees with John Gruber.
This is Obama's signature piece of leglislation after all.