Posted on 11/14/2014 4:10:47 PM PST by grundle
The hits just keep on rolling in. After the previously unknown investment advisor Rich Weinstein established that there was a literal trove of videos featuring Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber speaking candidly and in strikingly impolitic ways about the health care reform law and the American public he helped deceive, the mainstream press is now getting in on the act.
The sixth installment in the series of videos featuring Gruber crucifying himself was uncovered by CNN’s Jake Tapper:
The issue at hand in this sixth video is known as the “Cadillac tax,” which was represented as a tax on employers’ expensive health insurance plans. While employers do not currently have to pay taxes on health insurance plans they provide employees, starting in 2018, companies that provide health insurance that costs more than $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for a family will have to pay a 40 percent tax.
Much like the videos uncovered by Weinstein, Tapper discovered the sixth video also hiding in plain sight posted on the Pioneer Institute’s public policy research website. The relevant remarks begin at the 30:38 mark:
In those 2011 remarks, Gruber said that, despite the fact that most members of his profession agree employer-based health insurance tax breaks were bad policy, “it turns out politically it’s really hard to get rid of.”
He said the Affordable Care Act helped to do away with this system in two ways. The first, “by mislabeling it, calling it a tax on insurance plans rather than a tax on people when we all know it’s a tax on people who hold those insurance plans.” And secondly, by delaying the implementation of this tax until 2018. “But by starting it late, we were able to tie the cap for Cadillac Tax to CPI, not medical inflation,” Gruber said.
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Wouldn’t that be considered conspiracy with Obama in the White
House meeting to commit fraud against the American people.
I so very badly want to run into this clown at the airport. I’ll do my time quietly.
bttt
Where were these so-called journalists 5 years ago?
Couple observations...if MIT has an ethics class, will Gruber teach it or will MIT provost fire Gruber? Greater chance of him teaching it.
Need to space out releasing the vids...he needs to do a couple days apart each so the media can’t recover.
Then again, we’re doing clive-piven in reverse by overwhelming the system!
Ratboy unknowingly admiitted to Embelement by bragging about lying and tricking U.S. citizens.
Ratboy needs to be arretsted, interrigated, charged and prosecuted immeadily.
Yep. He’s like the guy who gets away with murder, then is jugged for DUI and brags to anyone in Con College who will listen how smart he is ... so then his cell mates rush to see the warden about cutting their own deals.
Of course, here Gruber’s the ‘rat. And too smart for his own good. If a Republican were in the WH, the drumbeat from the MSM (and fellow GOPers) for his resignation would be constant and loud.
Fact is, they were sitting there in plain google waiting to be clicked upon and taken in with a critical ear.
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