Gruber admits Obama was present when Obamacare deception occurred
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Shortly after Obamacare architect and MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber wasseverely criticized by South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy, a new video has surfaced that shows Gruber admitting that Obama knew it was going to be a problem, and they all agreed to lie about it, the Gateway Pundit reported on Thursday. Gruber was interviewed by Frontline on June 13, 2012, in which he admitted that Obama was present in a meeting in the Oval Office along with several experts. They, along with Gruber worked to figure out a way to get credible savings on cost control that the Congressional Budget Office would recognize and score as savings in this law, in order to get it passed based on lies.
In the interview, Gruber said, “The next time I see him is summer 2009. The big issue there is that he really wants to make sure I’m moving forward on cost control. I think that at this point, he sort of knew we had a good plan on coverage, but he was worried on cost control. So we had a meeting in the Oval Office with several experts, including myself, on what can we do to get credible savings on cost control that the Congressional Budget Office would recognize and score as savings in this law.”
“And that was a meeting… it was very exciting, once again, because the economists in the room all said the number one thing you need to do is you need to take on the tax subsidy to employer-sponsored insurance, “said Gruber. “We need one minute of background on this. The way employer-sponsored insurance works is, if you get paid in wages, you get taxed. If you get paid in health insurance, you do not.”
“So this tax subsidy economists have been railing against for decades, it’s super-expensive,” Gruber said. “We forgo about $250 billion per year in tax revenues. It’s regressive — the richer you are, the bigger tax break you get. And it’s inefficient because it causes people to buy excessive health insurance. So everyone in the room said, “You want something that is real cost control that we know it will work, go after this.”
Gruber went on to say, “Now, the problem is, it’s a political nightmare and people will say, “No, you can’t tax my benefits.” So what we did a lot in that room was talk about, well, how could we make this work? And Obama was like, “Well, you know”… I mean, he is really a realistic guy. He (Obama) is like, “Look, I can’t just do this.” He said, “It is just not going to happen politically. The bill will not pass. How do we manage to get there through phases and other things?” And we talked about it. And he was just very interested in that topic.”
Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit in response to the video said, “The White House reached out to left wing reporters at Talking Points Memo to deny Gruber had a role, saying Gruber didn’t “work” at the White House. Was Gruber lying? Was he in the Oval Office with the President in the summer of 2009, talking about how to game the CBO numbers?”
Hoft point out that Gruber according to White House visitor logs on July 20, 2009, Gruber met with Obama in the West Wing and was there for almost four hours. “Obama was at the center of this deception. He specifically ordered Gruber and other “healthcare experts” to find ways to game the CBO numbers so that the bill would pass, “Hoft said. “In his gleeful showboating over passing the bill, Jonathan Gruber has clearly identified President Obama as the source of the lie behind the Cadillac Tax. The story is no longer about Jonathan Gruber. It’s about the deliberate lie the President used to pass this monstrosity of a healthcare law.”
Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro of Breitbart reported on Wednesday that Obamacare advocates have admitted that it will kill the elderly. Some of the individuals that pointed to how Obamacare will eliminate the elderly include Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has said that he wishes to die at age 75. Emanuel wrote in February 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association and said, “Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality of care are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change.”
In September 2007, former Clinton Labor Secretary and Obama economic advisor Robert Reich stated, “If you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you… maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die.”
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