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CNN: Obamacare architect discussed misleading public in 4th newly uncovered video (Gruber)
CNN ^ | November 13, 2014 | Jake Tapper

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; gruber; grubergate; grubervideo; jaketapper; jonathangruber; nancypelosi; obamacare; obamacarelies; stupidvoters
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To: TomGuy

That would be icing!!!


41 posted on 11/13/2014 2:35:28 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

Interesting—this guy’s name is evolving into a verb and a noun, dealing with lying.

How apropos!


42 posted on 11/13/2014 2:37:18 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Hugin

+1.

May he die hard.


43 posted on 11/13/2014 2:38:11 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: maggief

44 posted on 11/13/2014 2:42:19 PM PST by tioga
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To: maggief

Four? We’re up to four. Guess MSNBC will have to have Gruber back for more lies... Of course ABC, CBS, and NBC are ignoring the story. Too busy kissing Obama’s behind.


45 posted on 11/13/2014 2:46:20 PM PST by GOPJ (Gruber & MIT - all the class of boiler room lowlifes pushing worthless swamp land on innocents....)
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To: GOPJ

-— Of course ABC, CBS, and NBC are ignoring the story. -—

Finally heard it on ABC radio news at the top of the hour. The story was fairly presented, at least as fairly as can be presented in 30 seconds. But if you blinked you’d have missed it.


46 posted on 11/13/2014 2:53:21 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: GOPJ

It’s truly unbelievable the major networks are ignoring this. Howard Kurtz (formerly CNN) went on quite a rant about it on O’Reilly. .


47 posted on 11/13/2014 3:00:14 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: maggief; Dog

Listening to the youtube from Dog, Weinstein refers to Megyn mentioning they (Fox) is waiting on response from White House ...before releasing it. A courtesy heads up.


48 posted on 11/13/2014 3:05:13 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: exit82

Die even harder with Obamacare.


49 posted on 11/13/2014 3:10:37 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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The mess Jonathan Gruber created (MSNBC barf alert)
11/13/14 04:11 PM—UPDATED 11/13/14 05:26 PM

By Steve Benen

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-mess-jonathan-gruber-created


50 posted on 11/13/2014 4:11:31 PM PST by SteveH
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To: tioga

keyboard spew alert


51 posted on 11/13/2014 4:13:24 PM PST by SteveH
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