Perhaps the biggest example of the failure of big government is ObamaCare.
From the beginning, ObamaCare was doomed. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was given carte blanche in this law that no one read. Her failed website ate a billion dollars of taxpayer funding.
Changes to the flawed health insurance scam were illegally made as subsidy complications have put some enrollees at risk of IRS penalties.
On Nov. 10, we learned that one of the plan’s architects, Jonathan Gruber, referred to the “stupidity” of Americans on a tape that surfaced of him appearing as a panelist at a University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 17, 2013. While he tried to pass it off as an off-the-cuff remark, we have learned that he referred to the “stupidity” of Americans in at least two additional appearances.
The stupidity of the American voter made it important for him and Democrats to hide ObamaCare’s true costs from the public, he arrogantly said, “That was really, really critical for this to pass.”
Then, on Nov. 11, we learned that he explained how Democrats played with the language of the health law so that it achieved their goals by fooling the “stupid” public. They also made it difficult for the Congressional Budget Office to accurately chart its costs.
On a 2013 tape aired today on Fox, former Sen. Max Baucus, then Senate Finance Committee Chairman, blindly supported Gruber’s work. Gruber was working with a $400,000 consulting fee. Baucus later called the law a train wreck.
Further evidence of ObamaCare’s failure is seen in the lowering of HHS’s second period enrollment expectations, from 13 million to nine million.
There’s more. The Supreme Court announced that it would hear one of the lawsuits challenging the federal government’s authority to hand out tax credits for millions of people using ObamaCare to buy insurance in 37 states.
Republicans are sure to use the Gruber tapes as it continues to press for repeal of the “anything but affordable” ObamaCare.
