‘American voters are too stupid’: Obamacare architect explains law’s passage

Published November 12, 2014 6:35pm ET



Jonathan Gruber, one of chief architects of the Affordable Care Act, has been caught in yet another recently discovered video saying that Congress was able to pass the massive healthcare law in 2010 “because Americans are too stupid” to understand its finer points.

The recently unearthed footage, which was aired Tuesday evening on Fox News, shows the MIT health economist explaining at an October 2013 event at Washington University in St. Louis that the bill contains several budgetary tricks that allows it to hide its true cost from the American voters.

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