[TheRealThing]

Chief ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber--- “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… 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… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”


There you have it. Republicans tried to head this thing off but, voters allowed their opponents the Democrats, to define Republicans as hard hearted rich guys that did not have the interests of the people in mind. As I have said, Dems believe the end justifies the means, in other words they believe it's okay to lie to the voter. Ironically an act which denies us the 'choice' we keep hearing so much about. One has to wonder how big labor will react once the reality of what they have supported through votes and hard earned wages hits home.