“The Obama administration can try to distance itself from Jonathan Gruber all it wants, but a 2012 press release from Obama’s own presidential campaign shows that when it comes to Obamacare, the president and Gruber are joined at the hip. The White House understandably wants to distance itself from Gruber. A series of videos that feature him bragging about his role in deceptively crafting Obamacare have started to come out, and they’re not even remotely helpful to the Obama administration. While on camera, Gruber claimed that lack of transparency in the law was a good thing, that the administration’s rhetoric about the so-called Cadillac tax was a complete lie, and that the lies were all necessary because stupid American voterswere too dumb to know what was good for them. Most important, Gruber’s claims in yet another video about how states that failed to establish health care exchanges were prohibited from receiving federal subsidies have greatly complicated the administration’s legal case in Halbig and King/Burwell, which is currently pending before the Supreme Court. These claims from Gruber are important, because he’s widely cited as “the architect” of Obamacare. If anyone would understand the law’s original intent and design, it’s Gruber. His remarks about the differences in state and federal exchange show that there’s nothing at all absurd about believing that Obamacare as written was meant to provide subsidies only to individuals who signed up for coverage via a state-based health care exchange.”
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 04:33:32 +0000
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