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Obamacare Contributor: “stupidity of the American voter” was necessary to ensure passage – Dr. Dave Janda

Saturday, November 15, 2014 13:15

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The following video clip proves EVERYTHING I have said about Obama Care since the passage of The Stimulus Bill and Health Care Bill ( The 2 parts that comprise Obama Care). In summary, one of the architects of Obama Care said the law was written in a deliberately “tortured” way and relied on the “stupidity of the American voter” to ensure its passage.

Don’t believe me. Watch the clip:

The Blaze reports:

In a newly unearthed 2013 clip, Jonathan Gruber, the MIT health economist who helped craft parts of the Affordable Care Act, got fairly candid about the tactics used to get the Affordable Care Act passed during a panel at the Annual Health Economists’ Conference last year.

“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure [the Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes,” Gruber said in one 52-second clip. “If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. OK, 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.”

Gruber then trumpeted the value of a “lack of transparency” — and called American voters stupid.

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber said. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass.”

Better for the American people to be saddled with a law they don’t understand, Gruber claimed, than for them to understand the law and rally against it.

“Look, I wish … we could make it all transparent,” Gruber said, “but I’d rather have this law than not.”

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TND Editor’s Note: Dr. Janda’s analysis of Obamacare has proven to be second to none. It’s possible to have a system that delivers quality health care at vastly lower costs, a system that would increase health care freedom. It’s an alternative vision that progressives and liberals really need to wrap their brains around because both Obamacare and the single payer system that will replace Obamacare when Obamacare goes down in flames do not match the ideals and goals progresives and liberals envision — and they’re clueless as to why this is the case. Click here to listen to Dr. Janda’s Sunday interview with Dr. Kris Held, an ophthalmologist and health care policy analyst. For a review of Obamacare overall, click here to listen to my Liberty Rising Radio interview with Dr. Janda.

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About Dr. Dave Janda:

David H. Janda, M.D. is an orthopedic surgeon based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and a member of a nine-member orthopedic surgery group. In addition, Dr. Janda is the director and founder of the Institute for Preventative Sports Medicine, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is the only health care cost containment organization of its kind in North America. Dr. Janda also produces “Operation Freedom,” a 2 hour weekly radio program on Ann Arbor, MI based WAAM 1600 AM. Click here for the show archive.