Posted on 11/13/2014 12:03:12 PM PST by maggief
As Congress voted on the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in 2010, one of the bill's architects, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, told a college audience that those pushing the legislation pitched it as a bill that would control spiraling health care costs even though most of the bill was focused on something else and there was no guarantee the bill would actually bend the cost curve.
In recent days, the past comments of Gruber -- who in this 2010 speech notes that he "helped write the federal bill" and "was a paid consultant to the Obama administration to help develop the technical details as well" -- have been given renewed attention. In previously posted but recently noticed speeches, Gruber discusses how those pushing the bill took part in an "exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter," taking advantage of voters' "stupidity" to create a law that would ultimately be good for them.
In this fourth video, Gruber's language is not as stark as in three previous instances, but his suggestion that Obamacare proponents engaged in less-than-honest salesmanship remains.
"Barack Obama's not a stupid man, okay?" Gruber said in his remarks at the College of the Holy Cross on March 11, 2010. "He knew when he was running for president that quite frankly the American public doesn't actually care that much about the uninsured....What the American public cares about is costs. And that's why even though the bill that they made is 90% health insurance coverage and 10% about cost control, all you ever hear people talk about is cost control. How it's going to lower the cost of health care, that's all they talk about. Why? Because that's what people want to hear about because a majority of American care about health care costs."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
A lot of Americans and many freepers have amnesia, when it comes to this documented ObamaCare voter history in Congress!
The documented history on the ObamaCare votes in Congress. Every single democrat senator and every single democrat congressit voted to make this Obamacare the law without reading nor understanding what they voted for.
Every single Republican in Congress voted against this Obamacare.
So, the stupid rats in congress own ObamaCare as per their own expert, Herr Gruber‘s You Tube comments.
What Gruber confirmed is what we already knew..Democrats think the American people are stupid..and in a way, many of them are..just go around any city in America and talk to people, ask them what is going on in the world..ask them about Benghazi, they think its a soft drink or some rock group. Ask them about the IRS targeting Conservatives, they will have this DUH look on their face..heck even better, ask them who the Vice President is..some people are just clueless and this is how Democrats for YEARS and YEARS have secured their voting block
I heard a rumor Jonathan Gruber set out to destroy America’s healthcare system as revenge for his brothers Hans and Simon.
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Critics: Health proposals downplay cost of care
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA) - Friday, November 11, 2005
Author: ROBIN LORD
EXCERPT
But Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Jonathan Gruber , who has been an outspoken proponent of the House version of the plan, said his models do not project a huge shift by employers away from their private insurance coverage. And, even if that does happen, it is not necessarily a bad thing, he said.
‘’Insurance is supposed to mean you’re not bankrupted,’’ he said. ‘’Health insurance should not cover all your spending.’’
Gruber agreed that health care costs need to be addressed, but he claimed arguing against the current reform packages on that basis is a case of ‘’perfect being the enemy of good.’’
‘’I agree these plans don’t deal with health care costs in a meaningful way, because we have no clue how to lower health care costs,’’ he said.
‘’Let’s deal with a problem we can solve.’’
Higher out-of-pocket costs could force consumers to pay more attention to the health care they are getting, and thereby lower costs overall, Gruber argued.
Consumers will avoid the health care they do not need, he said.
“Off the cuff” remarks, no doubt.
You beat me to it!
There are some good links at this one too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3226673/posts
“Word has it there is worse to come...”
Pelosi is going to remember Gruber’s name now!
Listen to that tape....whatever is coming is going to make it CRAZY.
Bravo to both of you.
Is this report it? Or, is there still more to come?
CNN: Obamacare architect discussed misleading public in 4th newly uncovered video (Gruber)
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More to come and that more to includes stuff worse than what we have seen and heard so far.
He even admits if Americans knew about the reality of the law, it would not have passed. That doesn't sound like he thinks we are inherently stupid . . . just stupid enough to not know what is good for us.
Lets try again
“He is one of the few with any credibility at CNN”
I wonder how many more videos there are? : )
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