OBAMACARE SOLD ON LIES FROM THE START

URGENT: Bombshell from Obamacare Architect Proves Obama Was Guilty From Start

Thursday, January 1st, 2015

Christmas may be over, but Jonathan Gruber is the gift that keeps on giving the whole year ’round. While the disgraced Obamacare architect has been indelicately ushered off stage left by the Democrats, he’s left behind a treasure trove for conservatives.

His latest gift to the right comes in a series of briefs which have to be seen to be believed, and may not even be believed then. However, aside from their utter absurdity, they serve as a smoking gun proving Obamacare was sold entirely on lies.

Gruber was paid over $400,000 in consultancy fees, mostly to make the Affordable Care Act affordable. However, as early as 2009, Gruber was openly admitting the promised cost controls were illusory at best.

In a 2009 policy brief, Gruber said, “… there are no cost controls in these proposals. Because this bill’s about coverage. Which is good!” (H/T Western Journalism.)

“Why should we hold 48 million uninsured people hostage to the fact that we don’t yet know how to control costs in a politically acceptable way? Let’s get the people covered and then let’s do cost control.”

Aside from the fact that Gruber must be the least self-aware person to ever enter politics, let’s look at the logic here.

Obamacare was sold to the American people on cost effectiveness. However, not only does Gruber state that the bill isn’t cost-effective, he openly admits no real attempt was made to institute even the most desultory of cost controls. “Which is good!”

Oh, and the way to do cost control in the future?

“The real substance of cost control is all about a single thing: telling patients they can’t have something they want. It’s about telling patients, ‘That surgery doesn’t do any good, so if you want it you have to pay the full cost,’”Gruber wrote.

So in short, Obamacare was sold based on cost controls and no rationing, but it was designed based on no cost controls and deliberate rationing.

This was a guy paid $400,000 – the price of a new Bentley convertible, mind you – to advise the president and construct the legislation, and this is the best he could come up with?

That the president and his cronies lied shocks me not. What does is how transparent the whole thing was.