re: Liberalism 101; Why Gruber was "right" to Lie about Obamacare

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Can anyone list the "lies" that Gruber is supposed to have revealed? With a little detail?

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-He said Romneycare only works if they ripped off the Feds - essentially, Ted Kennedy, Mitt Romney and he conspired to steal to make it work. So, they always knew that it couldn't work in a revenue-neutral way at the Federal level because there was no one from whom to steal.

-They had to call the 40% tax on the insurance company, when in reality, it was a tax on insurance policy holders or it wouldn't have passed (He said it still works, because the tax charge added is the same as the top marginal rate). ETA: He also said that when the bills came due, the "stupid" people would blame the insurance company and exchanges instead of the administration.

-CBO had to be fooled into scoring it incorrectly -if scored correctly, it would not have passed (this is key because most of the Dems, Pelosi particularly, relied upon this fudging to counter Republicans' correct criticisms of the costs).

- If the truth were told and it was known that this was a plan to, effectively, rob the young and healthy to pay for the healthcare of the sick and uninsured, it wouldn't have passed - the bill had to be written in a (either tortued or tortuous way - I don't want to misquote him) in order to achieve all these ends in a non-transparent way.

The insulting part (although not terribly untrue) is that he contends that the relative stupidity of the American people on basic economics was key to passing the law.