ObamaCare Architect: Administration Always Figured There Would Be Some Losers

‘This isn’t a huge problem. We are talking about a small slice of Americans’

O'DONNELL: "The president said this last week in his interview, with Chuck Todd here on NBC that he was looking at some kind of fix to the law. This was before Bill Clinton made the same kind of suggestion. But, Democrats in the House have no idea what that is. What would you suggest to the president and the Democrats as a fix for this.?
GRUBER: "I would first of all, say there is no easy fix. Because this isn't a huge problem. We are talking about a small slice of Americans. It's a political problem more than substantive problem. The most important fix is get the website working. The administration always figured there would be some losers, they figured at this point, there would be so many winners to point to that they could make the overwhelming case for the law. The web site glitches have take any way their best argument against their anecdotes of the losers. We don't have -- ultimately, there would be many, many times as many winners to point to. The best thing they can do is get the website working and get the number of winners up. So that they can have positive stories to point to."

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