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"Stupidity of American Voters" on the Docket at U.S. Supreme Court
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), is one of the most contemptuous, partisan laws to come out of Congress in the past century. The "centerpiece of President Obama's administration" was never read in full by any of the Democrat legislators that pushed it across the finish line, and was sold to the American people through an array of false premises. The most outrageous mistruth came from President Obama himself. It was Politifact's 2013 "Lie of the Year," "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
In a 2012, 5-4 decision, Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare's individual mandate was constitutional because it was a tax, and the high-fives in the Oval Office could be heard throughout the progressive world. Their victory was complete.
Since its passage, the 2,000-page law has grown like a cancerous tumor. Since 2010, various agencies within the administration have written additional regulations for Obamacare that account for a combined 10,535 pages in the Federal Register, once the government officially published them.
For the past four years a majority of American voters, who still oppose this law, have only been able to fight back at the ballot box. The midterm election wave of historic Republican wins was fueled in part by their discontent for Obamacare.
And now, for the first time since 2010, the American people have a video confession from one of the main architects of Obamacare, admitting the language of the law was purposely distorted to deceive the voters.
The recently unearthed video shows MIT health economist, Jonathan Gruber, who helped craft the law, confess the following: "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the Congressional Budget Office did not score the mandate as taxes. If the CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law that said healthy people are going to pay in--you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, IT WOULD HAVE NOT PASSED."
Mr. Gruber besmirched the American voter by calling us stupid. "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, really critical for the thing to pass." You can watch the entire video on the internet by searching the name, Jonathan Gruber.
The Supreme Court Justices were not fooled by Mr. Gruber's assertion that the individual mandate would go unnoticed as a "tax", and thus we had the controversial ruling of 2012.
But now, Mr. Jonathan Gruber and others may have to eat their own words. It was recently announced, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new challenge to President Obama's health care law--a case that threatens government subsidies in three dozen states which use the federally run system--HealthCare.gov. A ruling against the government subsidies, and the IRS, could unravel the entire health care law.
The "stupid" American people may get justice after all, and it would only be fitting that all the authors of Obamacare be publically shamed, and put in stockades for all to see, directly in front of the White House.
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