The Gruber Confession
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:35 pm
http://www.twincities.com/columnists/ci ... confession
Fox News programs have extensively covered the deceitful Professor Gruber. NBC. ABC, CNN, CBS and MSNBC, who all support and don't criticize Obama, have all ignored the Gruber videos.
Gruber will not be disciplined by the economics profession or by his university relative to tenure.
And the liberals are silent about Gruber's deceit and the functioning of the democratic aspect of our republic.
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"In November 2014, a series of four videos emerged of Gruber speaking at different events, from 2010 to 2013, about ways he felt the ACA was misleadingly crafted and marketed to get the bill passed; in several of these videos he specifically refers to American voters as ill-informed and "stupid." In the first, most widely-publicized video taken at a panel discussion about the ACA at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2013, Gruber said the bill was deliberately written "in a tortured way" to disguise the fact that it creates a system by which "healthy people pay in and sick people get money." He said this obfuscation was needed due to "the stupidity of the American voter" in ensuring the bill's passage. Gruber said the bill's inherent "lack of transparency is a huge political advantage" in selling it.[23] The comments caused significant controversy.[24][25][26][27][28] In two subsequent videos, Gruber was shown talking about the decision (which he attributed to John Kerry) to have the bill tax insurance companies instead of patients, which he called fundamentally the same thing economically but more palatable politically. In one video, he stated that "the American people are too stupid to understand the difference" between the two approaches, while in the other he said that the switch worked due to "the lack of economic understanding of the American voter."[29] In another video, taken in 2010, Gruber expressed doubts that the ACA would significantly reduce health care costs, though he noted that lowering costs played a major part in the way the bill was promoted.[30]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_G ... troversies
Fox News programs have extensively covered the deceitful Professor Gruber. NBC. ABC, CNN, CBS and MSNBC, who all support and don't criticize Obama, have all ignored the Gruber videos.
Gruber will not be disciplined by the economics profession or by his university relative to tenure.
And the liberals are silent about Gruber's deceit and the functioning of the democratic aspect of our republic.
________________
"In November 2014, a series of four videos emerged of Gruber speaking at different events, from 2010 to 2013, about ways he felt the ACA was misleadingly crafted and marketed to get the bill passed; in several of these videos he specifically refers to American voters as ill-informed and "stupid." In the first, most widely-publicized video taken at a panel discussion about the ACA at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2013, Gruber said the bill was deliberately written "in a tortured way" to disguise the fact that it creates a system by which "healthy people pay in and sick people get money." He said this obfuscation was needed due to "the stupidity of the American voter" in ensuring the bill's passage. Gruber said the bill's inherent "lack of transparency is a huge political advantage" in selling it.[23] The comments caused significant controversy.[24][25][26][27][28] In two subsequent videos, Gruber was shown talking about the decision (which he attributed to John Kerry) to have the bill tax insurance companies instead of patients, which he called fundamentally the same thing economically but more palatable politically. In one video, he stated that "the American people are too stupid to understand the difference" between the two approaches, while in the other he said that the switch worked due to "the lack of economic understanding of the American voter."[29] In another video, taken in 2010, Gruber expressed doubts that the ACA would significantly reduce health care costs, though he noted that lowering costs played a major part in the way the bill was promoted.[30]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_G ... troversies
