Posted on 07/25/2014 3:05:58 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
Jonathan Gruber, a professor at MIT, is widely is regarded as the architect of both Romneycare and Obamacare. Following the D.C. Circuit’s decision in Halbig, he asserted that the provision of Obamacare limiting subsidies to the state exchanges was a “typo.” Indeed, he found it “criminal” to suggest that Obamacare was intended to work this way.
But William Jacobson (via one of his readers) has unearthed video from 2012 in which Gruber explains why Obamacare limits subsidies to participants in state exchanges — the view of the statute he now finds “criminal.”
Gruber stated: “I think what’s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits.”
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Thank you. I long for the day Obama is removed from office; especially when I consider all the damage He can do in the next 30 months.
I have no faith in the court on any subject when literal simple language can be spun and is open to any meaning they decide or they can avoid the central issue altogether.
WASHINGTONIANS OUT!.
No reform of DC possible.
We need people who go to DC not to reform but to dismantle.
Let’s roll
No way in hell it is a typo - it was intended to strong-arm the States into compliant servitude. Now that it didn’t work, if they want to claim “typo” they should be told that those who don’t read the laws they enact get stuck with the laws they enacted.
BTTT
Roberts ran off to a hovel/castle wall in Malta somewhere. He was afraid.
Good.
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