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Monday, November 10, 2014

Gruber: “The stupidity of the American voter”

Duh …

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber
Related source » Gruber: Stupidity of Americans Would Have Killed Obamacare | The Daily Caller 'via Blog this'
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“[The Obamacare] bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. 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 that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass […]”
— PATRICK HOWLEY, 11/09/2014 (dailycaller.com)


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