Those of you who are fans of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, brace yourself before watching the short clip below. Oh, dont worry, its no freedom-lover discussing the virtues of free markets, competition, or economic growth and limited government. No talk about individual rights or individual responsibility or property or rule of law or any other subject that scares you. Nothing like that. Rather, its one of your guys, Dr. Jonathan Gruber, talking openly about how they deceived the American people -- and the Congressional Budget Office -- with a tortured...lack of transparency in order to get the ACA passed. Itll make your blood curdle if you care anything for honesty in the process of people getting what they want. So who is Dr. Gruber? He was one of the main consultants for Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats as they designed the behemoth ACA. In his spare time, he teaches economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a bachelors degree as a student before going on to Harvard for a PhD. I dont recall any special graduate instruction on how to write tortured policy language in order to hide from both the public and the CBO whats really inside a bill, but maybe thats the difference between a Harvard PhD and one from Claremont, like what I have. But whatever the case, listen and learn how progressives in academia and progressives in government work together to accomplish what THEY think WE need, going so far as to hide the truth from us because apparently we are too stupid support what we need if we actually knew the truth about it: TRANSCRIPT OF DR. JONATHAN GRUBER: >>This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO [Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, ya know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:13:54 +0000
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