You might recall the movie The Sting where con men were portrayed as heroes who bilked
the mob out of a pile of money. That may make for a great Hollywood story. In
real life, though, these people are merely thieves who pull the wool over the
eyes of trusting and unsuspecting individuals. Although many people admire the
way these con men gain the trust of their victims, the practice is in fact a
despicable and highly illegal practice that leaves the victims with a traumatic
sense of being violated.
Now comes Professor Jonathan Gruber, who, along with his
accomplices Nancy Pelosi and Barrack Obama, may have pulled the greatest con in
America’s history.
Let’s examine Gruber. He is currently a professor of
economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught
since 1992. He is also the director of the Health Care Program at the National
Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a research associate. An associate
editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics,
Gruber has been heavily involved in crafting public health policy, including
the Massachusetts healthcare policy aka. “Romneycare.”
Why is Gruber important? Well, it turns out the good
professor helped write and promote the 905-page Affordable Care Act, also known
as Obamacare that President Obama signed into Law in 2010.
Yes 905 pages of “tortured language” that very few in
Congress bothered to read, let alone understood. The then Speaker of the House,
Nancy Pelosi, stood at the podium of the House and told Congress they will have
to “pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”
Well we did find out – the hard way. As the newly minted law
began to be implemented, the American public found out they had been scammed.
“If you like your doctor, you can keep it -- if you like your healthcare plan
you can keep it” soon became the lie Obama could not overcome or explain away.
As insurance premiums began to grow and the official Web Site rollout proved to
be a disaster, Americans started to wonder just what the government had gotten
us into.
Well we found out what those 905 pages were all about when
the well-paid consultant, Gruber, appeared on television and explained that the
bill was intentionally written in a way
to deceive the “stupid voters.” Even more significant was the revelation that
the law was written to avoid the appearance of it being a tax – one of the
first controversial points that went before the Supreme Court.
Of course, the White House and Nancy Pelosi denied even knowing
Jonathan Gruber. Another co-conspirator HHS secretary, Kathleen Sebelius denied
knowing the professor, even though they both sat on the same committee, and she
signed his paycheck for several hundred thousand dollars.
Deception upon deception, this fraud was foisted upon the
American public – many of whom bought into it in good faith – just to learn
that it was a scam promoted by unrepentant con men, including the Speaker of
the House and President of the United States.
Do you feel violated and taken advantage of? I do. But then
again, I never believed any of Obama’s lies. This bill passed without a single
Republican vote and was signed into law by a Democratic President. Since the
Republicans gained control of the House, they have tried some 40 times to
repeal this fraudulent law only to be thwarted by Democrats in the Senate. It’s
apparent that it will take a Republican controlled Congress and Republican
President to set the Affordable Care Act right. Until then folks, you will just
have to put up with being taken for a ride by the Democrats, and being the
victim of the Great American con called Obamacare.
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