The whole thing was an outright scam.
This man should be prosecuted for violation of the Federal Acquisition Regulations as well as a host of other self-serving deeds.
He should be come the subject of his own FBI investigation, IMO.
Duh!!!
If Mr. Trump makes RomneyCARE SOS,
then Gruber should run the Treasury.
This was the MIT dufus who kept on saying how great Obamacare would be and how people are stupid enough to believe anything they’re told. Now it sounds like he’s trying to save a bogus reputation.
I wouldn’t believe anything this person has to say. I’m not that stupid.
The reality is that these people were paid for by hospitals and their insurance companies. But now they just send the bill to the federal government. Poor people don’t really sign up. They get signed up when they show up at the hospital. When they show up there again, they sign up one more time. They don’t care. They were on Medicaid, they were on state plans. They were just showing up at hospitals and not paying their bills. The same thing is happening now. Its just that the fed is paying.
And Ohio just went bankrupt.
Groober has squandered any believability due him because of his notorious lying. Why should *anyone* pay attention to this leftist idiot is beyond me.
And I really hat to say it. But that provision that takes young adults 18 to 25 get free healthcare on their parents plan is ridiculous. Those are not kids. Those are often working adults. Or adults that should be working. They could at least means test it. If you make more than $39K you have to get health insurance.
This man committed fraud.
Fixed that line...
Gruber SHOULD be in the Hoose Gow!!
That is likely not accurate given the source is Gruber who has admitted it’s OK to lie to meet an end.
The ACA greatly relaxed the Medicaid eligibility requirements, basically opening it up to anyone who makes below a certain level of income regardless of assets, age, infirmity, etc.
Previous Medicaid eligibility requirements (although different in each state) were generally limited to young children, mothers with young children, blind people, a few other disabilities. There was an asset test as well as an income test.
So, no I don’t believe what Gruber is saying.
The stated goal of the ACA was that at least half of “newly insured” would come from additions to the Medicaid rolls. They met that goal easily. The only way to do that was by relaxing the eligibility requirements drastically.
Meaning if we repeal Obamacare, the poor won’t be thrown out on the streets to die.
For that we have the word of none other than Jonathan Gruber.
Time to chuck Obamacare.
“Two-thirds of new Medicaid enrollees in 2014 were eligible for the program under previous state eligibility criteria—meaning that they were not made eligible by the ACA - Jonathan Gruber.”
I don’t believe this. The Medicaid expansion was HUGE. We went from a system where you had to be in a specific category, eg single woman, disabled etc to qualify and then had to meet income limits of under the poverty line.
The expanded system makes ANYONE (working age, able to work, no kids) eligible for Medicaid if you make under about 140% of the poverty line (in some states, higher).
The expansion of the eligible population was, therefore, huge.
I’m not sure why Gruber is running this line now. I don’t see what scheme it advances.
