It’s too late for that!
USA Today reports President Obama says he and his administration did not mislead the public on the financing of the health care law, disputing statements by a consultant who said supporters of the bill took advantage of the “stupidity” of American voters.
“The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is not a reflection on the actual process that was run,” Obama told reporters at a news conference following the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia.
Obama was responding to a recently discovered videotape featuring Jonathan Gruber, an MIT professor and outside adviser of health care. Gruber said the Obama administration obscured the financing of the law in order to get it passed.
“If you have a law that makes explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it wouldn’t have passed,” Gruber said on the video. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage and, basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever. But basically that was really critical to getting the thing to pass.”
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Liar in Chief
For me, after reading the Bill BEFORE IT PASSED, it was pretty obvious at face value that it would add 10,000 paychecks to administrate the law, which made the statement about saving each policyholder $2500 a year a loud, blatant lie. Nobody could tell me it was ever a good deal.
Then Pelosi made her famous statement of genius "to see what is in it", and everyone said,"okay...."
So, now we're all stuck with the mess until we get a new president and congress to turn it around.
BS!
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