Posted on 11/12/2014 7:45:41 AM PST by Din Maker
ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber said Tuesday he regrets saying that the health care law was written in a way that took advantage of the “the stupidity of the American voter,” adding he spoke “inappropriately.”
The Daily Caller reported that the MIT professor, who served as a consultant to the Obama administration as it constructed the health care overhaul, told a panel at the University of Pennsylvania that a lack of transparency was essential to getting the law passed.
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes,” he said. “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, 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.”
Gruber told Farrow that he is sorry for how he phrased his comments.
“The comments in the video were made at an academic conference,” he said. “I was speaking off the cuff and I basically spoke inappropriately, and I regret having made those comments.”
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Do I really need the sarc tag?
well,the guy is right they elected oboma twice.
This guy’s not sorry. He sorry all the stupid American people heard about his comments.
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes,” he said. “If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.
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But John Roberts scored it as taxes.
He regrets that he got caught
Well ,D’oh , the Democratic Party is Based on stupidity
The first time, or the second time?
What he should regret is the deliberate deception. But when you are on Satan’s team deception is your only path to victory
Lucky for us.
When will he actually apologize and beg forgiveness? Don't hold your breath.
The only thing this rat nazi regrets, is getting caught saying what he did.
What he said about his lower rat voters, is probably the only honest thing he said about ObamaFraudCare.
He regrets that he was caught, not that he said it. He’s repeated similar things too many times to be sorry that he said them.
Why Massachusetts even voted Scott Brown into Ted Kennedy's senate seat to try to stop it.
It's the 2300 page Obamacare laws that are stupid.
It's Obamacare, Stupid.
You know he truly believes that their ideas are superior and that the voters only oppose them because they are too stupid to understand.
If they could eliminate the will of the people from the equation, they’d be able to implement their Utopia so much faster.
And I’m sure Romney is kicking himself over the 47% remark. But you can’t un-ring the bell. Don’t say anything in front of anyone you don’t want on Facebook or You Tube.
The lamp posts should be working overtime this week in Washington.....
I don’t care if he ever apologises, I wouldn’t believe him anyway. He said almost the same thing on more than one occasion, and thanks to his lying and the lies of the rats in Congress and the many many lies of Obola, CommieCrap was shoved down our throats through chicanery, gutter deals, and arrogance. The only thing that can ever make it right is to repeal it, or gut it so much that it’s basically the same thing.
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That's not an apology. He regrets his choice of words, but he doesn't regret what he said.
ObamaCare architect says he regrets his own “stupidity” is now on public display is more accurate.
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