Category: Health Care debate

Well, there he goes again. And again.

And he’s getting paid, too.

Remember Jonathan Gruber?  Apparently the 3 videos I discussed yesterday – showing Gruber repeatedly calling the US public “stupid” – weren’t all of his past “pearls of wisdom” concerning ObamaCare and/or US healthcare policy.  A couple of more have surfaced.

What does he say in these new “nuggets”? Well, let’s see. In one, he says that the Massachusetts health care system he helped design was a scam from day one and only succeeded because Massachusetts conned the Federal government into paying a big chunk of the cost.  Here’s the “money quote” (pun intentional; material in italics added for clarity):

“The dirty secret in Massachusetts is the feds paid for our bill, okay?” he [Gruber] said. “In Massachusetts we had a very powerful senator you may know named Ted Kennedy. . . . Ted Kennedy and smart people in Massachusetts had basically figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million dollars a year.”

In another, he openly mocks a critic of single-payer, government-funded healthcare systems, comparing the critic to an adolescent child.   Nice.  And very indicative of where Gruber lies (second intentional pun) politically.

Ya know, Gruber sounds to me like your sterotypical arrogant ivory-tower pr!ck who’s never really had much to do with the real world.  If I didn’t know better, I’d swear he was a professor at some college in New England who had never really held a job outside academia.  Well, except for those hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars he’s been getting over the past few years for speaking in favor of, performing analysis concerning, and executing various other consulting tasks promoting ObamaCare.

Ya know, to me it almost looks as if he might just have a conflict of interest in that last, or an ethical problem vis-à-vis MIT policies.  But what do I know?

Well, I’ll let one of them tell you. The clips below are from a guy named Jonathan Gruber – one of the law’s architects, and an economics professor at MIT.

 

 

He further states his belief that American voters are stupid here (it’s at around 31:00 of an hour-long video – sorry, I can’t find a shorter clip).

 

And, finally – we have this:

 

 

Yep. According to one of its authors, ObamaCare was crafted the way it was because its authors thought “the American people are too stupid to understand the difference”.   That explains a lot.

Oh, and Gruber now says he “regrets” calling the American people “stupid”. Yeah? Well, I have one thing to say to that: “Bullsh!t.”   He doesn’t regret saying that at all.

What he regrets is getting caught on video telling someone his true opinion. Because it’s on video, he can’t now deny what he actually said or how he actually feels about his fellow citizens.  He regrets being exposed as a Nanny-state Marxist who feels his fellow citizens are too stupid to take care of themselves.  And he also undoubtedly regrets the fact that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – who repeatedly cited his work by-name during the prelude to that middle-of-the-night, “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it” rush to enact ObamaCare – now denies knowing who he is.

You probably only heard about this guy’s statements recently, if you’ve heard about him at all. That’s because it wasn’t the media that originally found his remarks about the US public. Hell, given the prolonged attachment of the media’s collective lips to the POTUS’s butt during past few years I’d guess they’d have buried it anyway.  And the media is still keeping this mostly quiet today.

So, who broke the story?  Turns out it was an investment broker who couldn’t keep his health plan during the initial ObamaCare rollout.  He got p!ssed at being baldfaced lied to, and started looking into the background and past public statements of those who wrote the ObamaCare law. See the first link below for details.

So, we have a monumentally stupid law – which was written the way it was because the people writing it thought American voters were too stupid to notice.  And now they’ve got their butts in a sling because the American voters DID notice – and don’t like being played for fools.  The irony there is simply stunning.  You couldn’t make this sh!t up if you tried.

Some of these video clips of Gruber have had a way of disappearing from university and/or other public sources (imagine that). So in case that happens again, below are links to some of the original news sources on the matter.

 

Meet the Mild-Mannered Investment Adviser Who’s Humiliating the Administration Over Obamacare

Yet Another Video Emerges Of Obamacare Architect Calling Americans ‘Stupid’

In Third Video, Obamacare Architect Talks About ‘Basic Exploitation’ Of American Voters

 

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