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ObamaCare cost spike is Trump’s fault, ACA architect says
Fox News.com ^ | May 7, 2017

Posted on 05/07/2017 12:05:29 PM PDT by Kaslin

ACA architect says Published May 07, 2017 Fox News Facebook Twitter livefyre Email Print Now Playing

What would the new health care bill mean for you?

ObamaCare co-architect Jonathan Gruber -- who infamously said “the stupidity of the American voter” helped get the measure to become law -- now blames Trump for rising premium costs.

“Whose fault is this?” Gruber asked on “Fox News Sunday.” “Since President Trump has been elected … premiums are going up and insurers are exiting.”

Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor, argued that perceived rising premium costs are really a one-time increase in 2016 to cover “massively underpriced” policies for the first two years of the 2010 law.

He also said the increase “fixed” the problem because insurance companies were seeking signs of profitability and talking optimistically about continued participation in the program.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 0bamacare; 115th; aca; acha; gruber; jonathangruber; obamacare
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1 posted on 05/07/2017 12:05:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Hardly. Failure was planned into that mess.


2 posted on 05/07/2017 12:07:25 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Kaslin

The logic of the left.

Nothing is their fault.

Even obamacare passed without a single republican vote


3 posted on 05/07/2017 12:09:16 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Kaslin

"Accou-- Accountability, you say...??"

4 posted on 05/07/2017 12:12:01 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

This Obamacare architect is a few hundred Fruit-loops short of a full box.


5 posted on 05/07/2017 12:12:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Kaslin

Crawl back in your hole. The fact that he is showing his face tells me he has no shame.


6 posted on 05/07/2017 12:14:39 PM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: Kaslin

Trump has been in office less than 120 days and its his fault? Yeah right... I don’t so!


7 posted on 05/07/2017 12:17:58 PM PDT by Keen-Minded
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To: Kaslin

Trump & the GOP congress have made no health insurance policy changes or instituted laws making such changes nor instituted tax changes relative to health insurance yet.

So how is it possible that health insurance premiums, that have been rising hugely throughout the time Obamacare has been law, can possibly now be rising due to Trump? It simply is not possible.


8 posted on 05/07/2017 12:20:17 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

These supposedly smart people are delusional.


9 posted on 05/07/2017 12:26:36 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: Kaslin

I cant' HELP the stupidity of that orange-faced goy..! It's TOUGH to be a genius, what can I say..?

10 posted on 05/07/2017 12:30:18 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Kaslin
Correlation is not causality.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

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11 posted on 05/07/2017 12:36:20 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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My opinion of MIT has really dropped since they hire arrogant pricks like this guy.


12 posted on 05/07/2017 12:37:01 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Kaslin

Meanwhile, eight years of Obama failures are still being blamed on Bush.


13 posted on 05/07/2017 12:41:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Kaslin

Horse hockey


14 posted on 05/07/2017 12:50:44 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning)
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To: gaijin

GRUBBY GRUBER IS A KNOWN LIAR AND CON MAN.
This asshole should be in prison, if you or I had done what he did, we would be.


15 posted on 05/07/2017 12:51:41 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t know Trump was President in January 2014 when our Healthcare Premiums jumped 30% on their way to the current 100% increase over our December 2013 costs.

I learn something new every day.


16 posted on 05/07/2017 12:56:01 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Kaslin

Everyone Knows That Gruber IS A Liar!!


17 posted on 05/07/2017 12:57:12 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Kaslin
The headline is supposed to give Gruber authority on the topic, since he's the one who designed the exploding crap sandwich called obamacare, but it actually says that of seven billion people give or take, he is precisely the least qualified to speak on the matter.
18 posted on 05/07/2017 1:10:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Kaslin

19 posted on 05/07/2017 1:12:41 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: madison10

It sure was


20 posted on 05/07/2017 1:13:41 PM PDT by Kaslin ( The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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