re: Obamacare architect talking about the lack of transparency on purpose.

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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.