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Buzz Cut:
• The opacity of ObamaCare
• Obama: Immigration action ‘Going to happen’
• Axelrod to Hillary: ‘Get out of the cocoon’
• It’s official, Warren now Senate Dems link to liberals
• Space jam
THE OPACITY OF OBAMACARE
“What we need to do is be transparent,” Health and Human Services head Sylvia Burwell announced earlier this week on the eve of ObamaCare’s reboot. How ironic, given the recent exposure of just how opaque the curtain of deception behind which the president’s unpopular health law was sold has been. As more damaging video of ObamaCare architect Johnathan Gruber continues to hit the internet, Democrats are doing their best to dance away from his disparaging comments about American voters. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi went as far as saying, “I don’t know who he is. He didn’t help write our bill,” during a press conference Thursday. But that wasn’t Pelosi’s tune leading up to the health law’s passage. Fox News: “At the time, her office put out a ‘health insurance reform mythbuster’ press release pointing to the work of ‘noted MIT health care economist Jonathan Gruber’ in examining the House bill’s impact on premiums. They noted that Gruber found it ‘would result in lower premiums than under current law for the millions of Americans using the newly-established Health Insurance Exchange.’” Of course the clouds covering an administration’s touted transparency shouldn’t be surprising given sunny forecasts Americans were sold like “you can keep it” that ultimately fell flat for all to see.
[“We were subjected during the Obamacare debate to a whole lot of stuff that we all knew was not true, not even close to true. And what this insider is saying confirms that they were spinning tales from beginning to end because they knew they couldn’t tell the truth about Obamacare and have a chance of passing it even with a Democratic Senate with 60 votes.”—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a press conference Thursday.]
The hits keep coming – The latest discoveries on the Gruber internet hit parade include a video that shows him bragging about how the Massachusetts health care system he helped design worked by ripping off millions of dollars from the federal government, and another clip from Vermont in which he mocks a critic of single-payer health care, comparing him to an “adolescent” child. And there are more.
