Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Admited in 2012 That Subsidies Were Limited to State-Run Exchanges
Earlier this week, a three-judge panel in the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that, contrary to the Obama administration’s implementation and an Internal Revenue Service rule, Obamacare’s subsidies for private health insurance were limited to state-run health exchanges.
The reasoning for this ruling was simple: That’s what the law says. The section dealing with the creation of state exchanges and the provision of subsidies states, quite clearly, that subsidies are only available in exchanges “established by a State,” which the law expressly defines as the 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
Obamacare’s defenders have responded by saying that this is obviously ridiculous. It doesn’t make any sense in the larger context of the law, and what’s more, no one who supported the law or voted for it ever talked about this. It’s a theory concocted entirely by the law’s opponents, the health law’s backers argue, and never once mentioned by people who crafted or backed the law.
It’s not. One of the law’s architects—at the same time that he was a paid consultant to states deciding whether or not to build their own exchanges—was espousing exactly this interpretation as far back in early 2012, and long before the Halbig suit—the one that was decided this week against the administration—was filed. (A related suit, Pruitt v. Sebelius, had been filed earlier, but did not challenge tax credits within the federal exchanges until an amended version which was filed in late 2012.) It was also several months before the first publication of the paper by Case Western Law Professor Jonathan Adler and Cato Institute Health Policy Director Michael Cannon which detailed the case against the IRS rule.
Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who helped design the Massachusetts health law that was the model for Obamacare, was a key influence on the creation of the federal health law. He was widely quoted in the media. During the crafting of the law, the Obama administration brought him on for consultation because of his expertise. He was paid almost $400,000 to consult with the administration on the law. And he has claimed to have written part of the legislation, the section dealing with small business tax credits.
https://reason.com/blog/2014/07/24/watch-obamacare-architect-jonathan-grube
people you know what I find funny is the village manager was and is backing the obama hole deal, that is very scary . wow what are all these people thinking of.this guy is going down to be the worst of all.
Hello, my people! Do you not know that Jonathan Gruber, blameworthy primary architect and shameless promoter of Obamacare, is the son of long time Ridgewood residents Martin and Ellie Gruber of South Irving Street in Ridgewood, the same street on which lived (at the same time) James Hansen, high-ranking NASA scientist and blameworthy primary architect and shameless promoter of the now thoroughly discredited theory of anthropogenic global warming? These are our neighbors and we must confess our supporting role in the damage they have done to the well-being of our country, and the world, before we can be taken seriously in the critically important effort to disprove and marginalize their corrosive global-depopulation-promoting theories and policies and restore ourselves to the rule of law under an intact and functioning Constitution.
wow hummmm, and for obama what a joke. you must have your head up your ass to back this bum. what are people thing of.