Posted on 11/15/2013 11:10:52 AM PST by Kaslin
One of Obamacare’s primary architects, MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, has explained away the millions who have lost their insurance as “genetic lottery winners” who should be responsible for funding insurance for the rest of the nation. He went on to describe our previous insurance system as “discriminatory” and added profoundly to the pile of lies Obamacare supporters have been amassing. Apparently Gruber decided it wasn’t enough to legislate millions of citizens out of their life-saving insurance – he felt like he should insult them as well.
Lie number 4,532 (roughly) regarding Obamacare was repeated again on MSNBC when Gruber suggested that employer sponsored coverage plans would be untouched by the recent rash of cancellations. According to the White House’s internal memos, however, employees with health coverage will also find themselves joining the ranks of the uninsured, as 51 million Americans lose their plans. (Then again, should we really trust the White House at this point? Maybe we should call this a “lowballed estimate”.)
Gruber outdoes himself a few short seconds later when he refers to the millions of Americans (political translation: potential voters) who lost their coverage as “genetic lottery winners.” Implying that the healthy consumers are mere anomalies of nature, and not healthy by virtue of their non-smoking, dietary-conscious, exercise-rich lifestyle is insulting enough. . . But calling Americans who just lost their cancer-killing healthcare a “genetic lottery winner” is a bit of an over-reach.
Millions of the Americans who are being dropped from their plans are the exact people Obama promised to help with his signature piece of legislation. But, because they are more than statistics, many of these consumers made the economically and fiscally responsible choice to purchase tailored insurance plans that catered to their pre-existing condition, without the added cost of trivial services like Sandra Fluke approved contraception coverage. And now these millions are being dropped. . . They are losing their life saving coverage and doctors because of Gruber’s perverse sense of “fairness”. . . Yeah, I bet they feel like real lottery winners alright.
(As a peripheral thought: How do you think Obamacare would have done in the legislature if Gruber’s comments were part of the sales pitch?)
For an MIT professor, Gruber seems wildly incapable of understanding the concept of insurance coverage. Of course insurers charge more for coverage of preexisting conditions. The alternative is to charge healthy people more to subsidize the cost, therefore reducing incentives to remain healthy. (Light up the Lucky Strikes and pour the whiskey. . . Obamacare will help lower your costs by overcharging all those healthy lottery winners who refuse to blacken their lungs and weaken their liver.)
The simple truth is that Gruber, the President, and anyone who took the time to critically glance over the meat of the legislation, knew that millions would lose their insurance. The moral judgment Gruber makes regarding the 5 million Americans who lost the plans they liked is irrelevant given the sales pitch he and Obamacare advocates shoveled at the American people.
And, now, with over 5 million newly uninsured Americans, the President has decided to use the “enforcement discretion” of the Executive Branch to relieve Americans from the consequence of his signature bill.
That’s right. . . President Obama has decided to flex the constitutionally questionable powers of the Executive Branch to delay enforcement of his own healthcare bill. Why? Well aside from the fact that he understands next year is an election year, he also understands that a narrative must be built.
Trotting out in front of the US media, President Obama squarely placed all blame for future cancellations on the insurance companies. His executive decision mandates that insurers let their consumers know what important benefits (such as maternity care for men and elderly couples) they will be missing out on by staying with their current plans. (Oh, and these plans will still be illegal by the end of 2014.) The President’s “fix” to Obamacare’s key implementation effect is merely a political Band-Aid designed to give his fellow Democrats cover in 2014.
But, according to the advocates of Big Government’s involvement in Big Insurance, all of this will work out. After all, as the Grubers of the world would tell you, the only people losing their insurance are genetic lottery winners who greedily refuse to pay for their neighbor’s medical bills. You would think that the architect of the nation’s most comprehensive healthcare bill would be slightly more sensitive to the idiocy of “blaming the victim”.
“Apparently Gruber decided it wasn’t enough to legislate millions of citizens out of their life-saving insurance – he felt like he should insult them as well.”
Isulting the opposition is a very typical Liberal stunt.
I guess if you don’t do drugs, drink to excess, routinely bear children out of wedlock, respect you family, respect authority, live and work in a mature and stable way, etc. that means you are ‘genetically fortunate’?? Really?
Whose that guy with the glasses that Gruber’s resting his claws on?
Is Gruber the guy the libs always quote when they claim that Obamacare is a replica of Romneycare?
Mr. Gruber certainly doesn’t look very masculine. He looks effete!
Which one is smarter? I say the cuckatoo or whatever that feathered creature is.
A man walks into the doctor's office
with a parrot on his shoulder.
The doctor says "What can I help you with?"
The parrot says "Can you take this ugly growth off my ass?"
No person can be as greedy as any politician when it comes to stealing citizens money via laws.
MIT professor....
Yet another overpaid know-nothing telling the rest of us we’re greedy and stupid.
Well, Jonathan, why don’t you say what really needs to happen - these people need a gun put their heads by a representative of the government
and FORCE them to subsidize the “less fortunate”.
There are tens of millions who will believe that all kinds of honest and hard working folks are to blame for the failure of OCare.
Here’s a cute surprise in the Obamacare bill - another ‘private army’ for the President with delusions he’s a KING:
http://www.infowars.com/congressman-warns-of-obamacare-secret-security-force/
I saw yesterday where someone was blaming Fox News and Republicans for the failure of the Roll out.
It seems the very act of disagreeing with a program can cause it to fail (I wish).
Greedy bankers, greedy insurers, greedy Wall Street, it works every time even if your 9 to 5 job depends on one or more of them, but “greedy consumers”, that is you and me and my family, ain’t gonna fly in this country!
Of course I am “greedy”. I shop for the best value, whether it be a car or health insurance. At the age of sixty-five I have no need for pregnancy insurance, why would I buy it? Why would a twenty-something pay an extra 1000-2000 dollars a year to pay the medical expenses of a complete stranger. The answer to that is that he will not. If the fine is 500 dollars only the morons will sign up.
Gruber or Grubworm or whatever his name is should enroll in an introductory economics class. I am sure that M.I.T. offers it and he probably qualifies for the employee discount on the tuition.
These pointy head holier than thou professors have not worked a day in their life in a real job and finally have created a business, the health care business and they are so excited about it, except nobody wants their product unless its free and now they are demonizing all their potential "customers" that aren't buying!
Stupid profs. They get used to saying what they jolly well please to their captive audience and don’t seem to realize the real world doesn’t work like that.
" Soon as I finish polishing my penny loafers,
we're going shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond."
"You dumb Americans made responsible choices to get insurance plans that fit YOUR needs....plans I consider subpar. Now, all us tolerant and compassionate Democrats are gonna screw you bigtime---you lose your coverage and your doctors because only “fairness” counts with socialist/liberals---not your miserable, greedy needs."
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