We all suspected that the Obama Administration was lying to the American people when they pushed the so-called Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) through Congress. Now we know that suspicion was true. They were lying.
Jonathan Gruber is an MIT economist who has been referred to as the “Obamacare architect.” He participated in a panel discussion on Obamacare at the University of Pennsylvania awhile back. He made some shocking admissions about the Democrats’ strategy in passing Obamacare. Unfortunately the tape containing his shocking revelations conveniently didn’t surface until after the election last week. Had it come to light prior to the election, a dismal night for Democrats might have been even more catastrophic. Some of the really tight races that Democrats managed to win (the Senate race in Virginia) might otherwise have gone to Republicans. We’ll never know for sure.
Here are the highlights of what he said. At its core, Obamacare is really nothing more than redistribution of wealth. “Healthy people are going to pay in… sick people get money.” But the American people couldn’t be told the truth, because according to Gruber “it would not have passed.” 
He went on to say “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.” In other words, the American people had to be kept in the dark, or Obamacare would never have passed. Gruber even has the audacity to refer to the alleged “stupidity of the American voter.”
Gruber also admits that Obamacare is a tax, but this fact had to be hidden. “I mean, this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO (the Congressional Budget Office) did not score the individual mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.”
After acknowledging all the lies and deception that went into the passage of Obamacare, its architect concludes by saying “but I’d rather have this law than not.” In other words, the ends justifies the means.
This admission of rampant deception by the Obama Administration in passage of their self-proclaimed “greatest accomplishment” deserves front page news and lead story television coverage. However, my guess is that other than on FOX News, talk radio, the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times, and maybe the Wall Street Journal, it will be largely ignored. (Along with Fast and Furious, the IRS targeting of conservative groups and individuals, and Benghazi.)
See you next week.