Obamacare architect talking about the lack of transparency on purpose.

He says if they had told the truth about what was in the bill, it would never have passed.

its a wonder that it even has to be stated, as if there are people who actually didn't know this, but his audience is the koolaid drinkers, so it probably has to be dumbed down

I would love to see a state AG bring up a racketeering and fraud case against certain Dems for this.

did I make it inb4 "republican plan?"

And as a final thought, the signature legislation of the Obama administration occurred while they held a super majority. Both houses of legislature. Both.

And they still lied to pass it.

Vile, filthy, scum.

I hesitate to use the word treason, maybe traitorous is the right word. Willful deceit to enact legislation should be criminal. Pretty vile & narcissistic human being right there

Bump for a Progressive/Liberal interpretation of this "misquote" from the gentleman in question.

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“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, 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….”

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On both points, Everyone pretty much knew these things and it was talked about plenty. Of course the Dems aren't going to come out and say it. Have you ever heard any politician highlight unpopular points of their bills?

That's the nature of politics: you talk about the popular effects of your legislation and diminish anything negative/ unpopular.

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Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” says the MIT economist who helped write Obamacare. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”

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If Obama fatigue is as bad or worse than it is now, and if Hillary is the nominee, some smart consultant can take that clip, and ask, "Do you want more of the same?"

This is an article about the citizen who found these clips. He's just a guy who lost his insurance and began doing the job the media should have been doing.
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