Why Obamacare Architect’s Admission of Dishonesty Should Matter to Every American
An architect of the federal healthcare law, Jonathan Gruber, said last year that a “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” helped Congress approve ObamaCare.
Five years ago it was already obvious that the Obama administration and congressional Democrats were engaged in an elaborate deception, a series of them really. But back then most of the media and much of the public didn’t seem to believe it. Now things have changed.
A list of administration lies might be a good topic for a book. But to just hit a few of the health care related highlights, we were told that the public option was not a Trojan horse, that it was about choice and competition. This was a bald faced lie. We were told we could keep our plans and doctors period, end of sentence. That was a lie. We were told Obamacare would reduce premiums by $2,500. That was a lie. That Obamacare was not a tax. Lie. That the VA was a model of socialized medicine. True, but not in the way they meant. All of these lies built upon one another, creating a vision of health reform that was all upside and no downside. And the Democrats barely, despite the obvious displeasure of citizens, forced it through, though only just barely.
What followed was several more years of various lies being told to adjust and protect the program. We were told, still incredible, that the White House had no idea what a disaster the launch of the federal exchange was going to be. We were told it was off to a great start, when in fact it only managed to enroll 6 people on the first day. We were told the problem with the site was too many excited customers when in fact the site crashed under just over a thousand users. We were told HHS had no enrollment targets when in fact there was an enrollment target memo. We were told the figures on enrollment were not available when in fact HHS was collecting data from insurers. We were told the rollout was just like the one in Massachusetts when in fact it was not. We were told the rollout was just like Medicare part D when in fact it was not at all. We were not told about a hidden Obamacare exemption that could have applied to almost anyone (it was finally added to the website after a WSJ report about it). On and on the administration and its allies in the media just lied about what was happening.
And slowly, slowly under the weight of all these lies and lies to cover up other lies, people got the message. The government isn’t being honest with us. They’re just saying whatever they need to say at that moment. And, despite the fact that the major media didn’t touch a lot of these individual stories, word still got around as if by osmosis. The President’s poll numbers started to go down and Obamacare’s numbers went down or, at best, never went up.
And now, with the statement by Jonathan Gruber we may have reached the ne plus ultra of statements confirming this administration’s essential dishonesty. Here you have one of the consummate Obamacare insiders–cited 71 times in DNC emails in 2009 alone– saying on video that the bill was designed to fool stupid voters, in fact to fool them by fooling the non-partisan CBO which is supposed to be an honest broker.
Incredibly, even at this point, there are some, like MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow and Washington Post writer Jose DelReal willing to suggest we’re just missing the nuance. Somehow this plain admission of dishonesty isn’t about what Gruber said or about what it tells us about the administration he worked closely with for years (even on the HHS payroll), it’s about missing context.
This is standard operating procedure for the far left but unlike 5 years ago, I don’t think many people are buying it these days. It has taken a long time, but Gruber’s embarrassing admission may be the last one some people needed to see what has really been going on all along. What his statement shows is that if there’s any possible political advantage in doing so, this administration is going to lie to your face. And that applies not just to Obamacare but to everything.
Watch the video here:
http://jtf.org/video-obamacare-architect-says-we-passed-the-law-thanks-to-the-stupidity-of-the-american-voter/
