‘Free Beacon’ Montage: ‘The Worst of Jonathan Gruber’

‘I’d rather have this law than not’

The Worst of Jonathan Gruber (Washington Free Beacon)

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber has been either too candid or just dishonest in his fight to pass and support the president’s health care overhaul.

In a video from October 2013 that came to light Friday, Gruber said the “lack of transparency” about the Affordable Care Act and the “stupidity of the American voter” were critical to it getting passed.

“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes,” he said. “If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said healthy people are going to pay in, it made explicit that healthy pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever. But basically, that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.”

Such deceit was necessary because, as Gruber said, “I’d rather have this law than not.”

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