The hits just keep on coming from ObamaCARE architech Jonathan Gruber. In the sixth video, posted on Hot Air, Gruber brags about mislabeling Obama at the Pioneer Institute’s public policy research in 2011. This video was always out there. Why the hell didn’t Romney use this against Obama in 2012? This a long video. To skip the boring, irrelevant stuff, skip ahead in this video to 30 minutes and 38 seconds.
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| Jonathan Gruber Video #6 – mislabeling Obamacare |
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Even now, with the sixth video on Gruber released, the media continues to ignore the story. You can read why here
He said that the Affordable Care Act helped do away with his system in two ways. The first, “by mislabeling it, calling it a tax on insurance plans rather than a tax on people when we all know it’s a tax on people who hold those insurance plans.” And secondly, by delaying the implementation of this tax until 2018. “But by starting it late, we were able to tie the cap for Cadillac Tax to CPI, not medical inflation,” Gruber said.
“This was the only political way we were ever going to take on what is one of the worst public policies in America, and every economist should celebrate this,” Gruber insisted.
“It’s on the books now,” Gruber added of the 2018 implementation deadline at which point he anticipated employers and unions would seek to have this tax repealed. “At that point, if they want to get rid of it they’re going to have to fill a trillion dollar hole in the deficit.”
Tapper concluded by noting why Gruber’s latest remarks expose even more duplicity on the part of the White House in their effort to pass Obamacare:
When the Cadillac tax was first rolled out, it was explained by Obamacare backers as a tax that would only impact those with “high end plans” — not all employer sponsored plans. A White House economic adviser in 2009 set “the record straight” by saying “the excise tax levied on insurance companies for high-premium plans, the so-called ‘Cadillac tax,’ will affect only a small portion of the very highest cost health plans — a total of 3% of premiums in 2013.”
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