Obamacare Architect: We Passed the Law Thanks to the ‘Stupidity of the American Voter’ One of the architects of Obamacare said the law was written in a deliberately “tortured” way and relied on the “stupidity of the American voter” to ensure its passage. Jonathan Gruber, the MIT health economist who helped craft parts of the Affordable Care Act, said, “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure [the Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes,” Gruber then trumpeted the value of a “lack of transparency” — and called American voters stupid. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber said. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass.”
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:55:23 +0000
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