Gruber: Medicaid Expansion Opposition ‘Awesome in Its Evilness’

Gruber: Medicaid Expansion Opposition ‘Awesome in Its Evilness’ (Daily Caller)

Embattled Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said earlier this year that the states who’ve declined the health-care law’s Medicaid expansion are downright ”evil” in a web interview with another university professor.

In a discussion for HealthInsurance.org, first cited by White House Dossier, Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago began by suggesting that turning down the Medicaid expansion was part of “a politics of impunity towards poor people, particularly non-white poor people,” that’s a “feature rather than a bug in the internal politics in some of these states.”

“You know that’s a great way to put it: there’s larger principles at stake here (sic), when these states are not just turning down covering poor people, but turning down the federal stimulus that would come with that,” Gruber replied. “They’re not just not interested in covering poor people, they’re willing to sacrifice billions of dollars in injections into their economy in order to punish poor people.”

“I mean, it really is just almost awesome in its evilness,” Gruber escalated. “And I agree, you have to recognize there’s larger principles at stake here.”