Video: ObamaCare architect brags about lack of transparency in law

HOTAIR.COM ^ | 10 NOVEMBER 2014 | ED MORRISSEY

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

In a sense, Jonathan Gruber’s response today to the emergence of his 2012 explanation for the language in ObamaCare mirrors the attempt to get courts to ignore the plain text of the statute and instead rule based on the most current interpretation. The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn reached out to Gruber to get his reaction to the emergence of the Nobilis video in which the architect of ObamaCare explains that the restriction of subsidies to states with their own exchanges was a rational attempt to coerce states into creating those exchanges, rather than shifting the burden back to the federal government. Gruber calls that “a speak-o — you know, like a typo”:

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This law needs to be repealed or struck down by SCOTUS. The GOP should be holding press conferences playing these remarks.

[JohnBrowdie]

we had to pass it to see what was it. now we need to repeal it before we all die from it.

[TexasCajun]

This is starting to let a lots of attention!

Let's hope FOX News runs it every time they have a Dem guest.

[SteveH]

actual article date is july 25, 2014

[InterceptPoint]

This is a gem. Watch it or resign from FR.;)

[C. Edmund Wright]

This video is devastating. This guy’s big mouth will probably be a major cause of Obama Care dying. His earlier statements about the exchange subsidy is the root of the case in Halbig and King V Burwell.

[molson209]

They still have not found the part of Obamacare that makes Obama President for life

[Balding_Eagle]

Here is Jonathan Gruber, who got $400K as an Obamacare architect, contradicting himself on the Halbig decision.

This has clips of him lying on the Chris Matthews show Hardball, and with Gruber lecturing, this time using the truth, at a conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbD5iQQS5KA

It’s a minute thirty seconds

[longfellow]

I like the part were he says Americans are stupid.

[Ray76]

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber: "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass"

Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog that is the controversy."

[Sgt_Schultze]

This guy is emblematic of the entire con job that was the selling of brosurance. Subterfuge and lies, compounded by doublespeak and evasion, this guy is President Chicken$#!+'s Joshua L. Steiner, who during the Whitewater episode, claimed he lied to his diary.

[PJ-Comix]

Um...You got TWO things wrong:

1. The DATE of the article.

2. The TITLE of the original Hot Air article.

[Logical me]

This law needs to be repealed or struck down by SCOTUS. The GOP should be holding press conferences playing these remarks.

The GOP will not do a damn thing. These jackasses are worthless.

[wtd]

In case the video is 'disappeared', here is a transcript:

• Video: Gruber: "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage." Video clip culled from University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics 2013 Plenary Session (Annual Health Economics Conference - AHEC) held on Oct. 17-18, 2013 during which MIT's health economist/ObamaCare architect, Jonathan Gruber spoke of how health economics principles can inform and improve the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

  Transcript:

• 0:00 It's just, you can't do it, politcally. You just literally cannot do it.

• 0:03 Ok. Transparent financing..unless we have transparent financing and thenhave transparent spending

• 0:09 I mean...this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the CBO did not square the mandate as taxes

• 0:14 If the CBO squared the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Ok.

• 0:18 So it's written to do that.

• 0:19 In terms of, in terms of risk rated subsidies.

• 0:22 You get a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in

• 0:24 You made explicit the healthy people pay in and sick people get money

• 0:27 It would not have passed. Ok.

• 0:29 Just like how people, transparent...lack of transparency is a huge political advantage

• 0:34 And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter, or whatever

• 0:37 But basically, that was really, really critical to get the thing to pass

• 0:42 And, you know, its the second best argument.

• 0:44 Look, I wish Mark was right, we could make it all transparent

• 0:46 But, I'd rather have this law, than not. So, it's kind of like his reporter's story.

• 0:49 You know, yeah. There are things that I wish I could change but I'd rather have this law than not.

[onyx]

Gruber: My 2012 remarks were “a speak-o” = Title

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[onyx]

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[PJ-Comix]

Yeah, so why couldn’t that be posted as the title here? Also the date was off by months.

[Logical me]

I like the part were he says Americans are stupid.

Most of then are. They have been playing and fun in the sun so damn long they haven't the slightest idea what is happening. Many getting a free ride with plenty of free money to spent will never be worth a damn.

[UCANSEE2]

There are things that I wish I could change but I'd rather have this law than not.

Yeah... as long as he 'personally' doesn't have to follow that law.