Even before Jonathan Gruber completed his testimony at a House panel Tuesday, more evidence of the Obamacare architect and MIT professor making newsworthy comments about the Affordable Care Act emerged.
In particular, Gruber suggested during a 2012 podcast appearance that President Obama lied about his championed health care law’s ability to control costs.
“I wish that President Obama could have stood up and said, ‘You know, I don’t know if this bill is going to control costs,” Gruber can be heard explaining in the taped interview. “It might, it might not. We’re doing our best. But let me tell you what it’s going to do. See that woman over there? She would have died without this bill. Her cancer would not have been caught.'”
However, because such an argument “doesn’t sell,” according to Gruber, Obama sold the Affordable Care Act in a different and less truthful way.
“Instead, he says, ‘I’m going to pass a bill that will lower your health care costs,'” Gruber said of Obama. “That sells. Now, I wish the world was different. I wish people cared about the 50 million uninsured in America. … But, you know, they don’t.”
So, Americans are stupid … and heartless.
He then characterized himself as “amazed” that the bill got rammed through Congress because people just don’t care about the uninsured.
“I’m amazed politically we got this bill through,” Gruber said. “I mean, we actually asked many politicians to vote against their self-interest, against what their constituents were telling them, to really do the right thing. And I think they deserve our support and applause for doing that.”
Stayed tuned for more “grubering” after the Obamacare consultant’s meeting with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
H/T The Daily Caller
