W.H.: GOP Using ‘6 and 8 Year Old’ Gruber Videos To Distract from ObamaCare Success

“[The president] was pretty clear about the fact that the sentiments that were expressed by Dr. Gruber are not the sentiments that president agrees with, and frankly, don’t actually reflect what actually happened in the process of passing and implementing this law. The fact of the matter is I do think that people are understandably pretty tired of re-litigating all of the political fights from 2009 and 2010 as it relates to Affordable Care Act.

There are some Republicans however, who do seek to sort of fame the flames of those old political arguments because they think it is politically advantageous for them to do so. My suspicion is that they do so because it’s easier to talk about 6 and 8 years old videos than it is to talk about how smoothly the opening of the second open enrollment period has gone so far, or to talk about millions of people who have gotten health care as a result of Affordable Care Act, or to talk about how the growth in health care costs is the lowest in recorded history, again, in the aftermath of the passing of the Affordable Care Act.

Affordable Care Act guarantees a bunch of patient protections including the people who can’t be discriminated against because they have a preexisting condition. All that stuff is pretty inconvenient for people who oppose the law to talk about, so it’s easier for them to talk about these kinds of videos. They are certainly welcomed to do that. I don’t think that there is a particularly large audience of the American people that’s eager to have this discussion.”