OBAMACARE ARCHITECT CLAIMS SCOTUS DOESN’T UNDERSTAND CONSTITUTION AHEAD OF RULING
‘The Supreme Court clearly doesn’t represent constitutional expertise of the broad Senate constitutional experts,’ claims Jonathon Gruber
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Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber emerged to defend his healthcare bill ahead of a Supreme Court ruling after it had been ruled “unconstitutional” by a Texas federal judge last week.
In a CNN appearance Monday, Gruber, who infamously said in 2013 that Obamacare’s passage depended on the “stupidity of the American voter,” claimed the US Supreme Court didn’t understand the Constitution as well as “Senate constitutional experts.”
“The Supreme Court clearly does not represent the constitutional expertise of the broad Senate constitutional experts, who for example in 2012 by about an 80 percent to 90 percent margin said the mandate was constitutional. Yet the Supreme Court found it wasn’t,” he said.
Fortunately, he said, the SCOTUS takes the American people’s opinion into account, and over 50% view the Affordable Care Act favorably.
“So I’m nervous. What’s fortunate is the Supreme Court I think does care about the opinion of the American people. The American people have spoken. They believe that protecting people with pre-existing conditions against insurance market discrimination is a key contribution of this law. And indeed it is.”
However, those that hold a favorable view of the healthcare legislation likely don’t understand it, as also iterated by Gruber in 2013 when he said that “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.”
Gruber also lamented the removal of the individual mandate because it was the major funding mechanism of the law, but said Obamacare would still be able to survive without it.
“We have now basically been proven that it’s important but not as important as we thought because look, we now have experience of the law without it, they removed the mandate. And we are seeing it weakens the law, it raises premiums, but the law still remains quite strong, albeit not as strong as it would have been,” he said.
However, in 2016, Gruber claimed that Obamacare would do better if the individual mandate penalty was increased.
President Trump praised the Texas judge’s ruling Friday, urging Congress to come together to work on better healthcare legislation for the American people.
As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!
57.7K people are talking about this
“groups” of people, but when it gets
down to individual persons, not so
much. You’re about to see this play
out in spades as Democrats cry
crocodile tears over the coming
repeal of Obamacare.
“This will be catastrophic for the
20 million people who were
previously uninsured but now have
coverage! You can’t take away their
health care!”
doing that. Any repeal legislation
will have a transition period for
those who got coverage through
Obamacare to move to new plans.
And second, they will have more
choices and better options. Win. Win.
quantity, how many millions we’ve
given something to, versus quality,
what does that “gift” mean for individual
people.
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million more Americans today have
health care due to Obamacare. The
reality is that when you look at the
actual net gains over the past two years
since the program was fully implemented,
the number is 14 million, and of that, 11.8
million (84 percent) were people given the
“gift” of Medicaid.
will be left without insurance after the repeal
of Obamacare. Numbers are still being
crunched, but between statistics released
by the Congressional Budget Office and
one of the infamous architects of Obamacare,
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s
Jonathan Gruber, it’s estimated that anywhere
from 2 to 7 million people now on Medicaid
would have qualified for the program even
without Obamacare.
of 20 million more Americans having health
insurance because of Obamacare.
those who are uninsured often have better
outcomes than those with Medicaid. A
University of Virginia study found that for
eight different surgical procedures, Medicaid
patients were more likely to die than privately
insured or uninsured patients. They were also
more likely to suffer complications.
focused on procedures done from 2003-2007,
prior to the geniuses in Washington deciding
it was a good idea to put even more people
on the already overburdened Medicaid system.
law promised, there is little evidence to show
that the use of emergency rooms, which have
a higher level of medical errors, has decreased
due to Obamacare.
handed out millions of new Medicaid cards, that
does not mean the recipients now have quality
health care. In fact, it doesn’t ensure they have
health care at all. That’s because increasing
numbers of doctors aren’t accepting Medicaid.
“My Medicaid card is useless for me right now.
It’s a useless piece of plastic. I can’t find an
orthopedic surgeon or a pain management
doctor who will accept Medicaid.”
senators pull out the Kleenex boxes bemoaning
the fact Republicans are the ones trying to take
people’s health care away.
Obamacare is how many truly needy and disabled
Americans are NOT getting the services they need
because of the expansion of Medicaid for able-
bodied adults (aka healthy) of prime working age,
19-54.
Obamacare is helping, it neglects to mention
that over half a million disabled people, from those
with developmental disabilities to traumatic brain
injuries, are on waiting lists for care.
Obamacare gives states more money to enroll
able-bodied adults than it does to take care of
disabled children and adults who qualified for
Medicaid prior to Obamacare.
perverse impact, note this. Since Arkansas
expanded its Medicaid program under
Obamacare, it’s rolls have grown by 25 percent.
During that same time, 79 people on the
Medicaid waiting list who suffered from
developmental disabilities have died. I would
encourage you to read my former Heritage
Foundation colleague Chris Jacob’s full piece on this.
that are finding fewer health care provider options.
For people who now have health plans through the
Obamacare exchanges, new Heritage Foundation
research shows that this year, in 70 percent of
counties across the country, those consumers
will have only one or two insurers to choose from.
doctors and health plans they liked and are now
paying higher premiums for less coverage, and
you can see that quality health care and anything
resembling “choice” has quickly disappeared for
an increasing number of Americans due to
Obamacare.
tries to take the moral high ground about the
millions of people the law has helped, ask
them to define what “help” looks like.