Many of us knew the Affordable Care Act was convoluted legislation when, at the time, House Leader Nancy Pelosi laughingly claimed, "We need to pass the bill it to find what's in it." However, it took millions of people losing health care plans to realize something smelled rank about Obamacare. Upon questioning the integrity of the ACA, the White House Administration sold Professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of Obamacare, as credible and unbiased.
#halbig @dabzs Everyone must see what the law writing elite think of the American people. Enough is enough.
— Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) November 7, 2014
Thanks to Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1), an investment adviser from Philadelphia, we know that claim is yet another deception. According to an interview with The Huffington Post, Weinstein, like so many other Americans (yours truly included), lost his family's health care plan after the implementation of the ACA. On the exchange, the only plan with similar benefits was twice the cost of his old one. Irritated, he began looking into who put together the Affordable Care Act, searching Google with the term “ACA architects.” Days consumed with researching old videos became nights.Weinstein's relentless video search has provided a huge smoking gun at a critical time as the Supreme Court gears up to once again listen to challenges to the ACA.
His break came last winter. An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, outlined a long-shot legal argument that said a direct interpretation of Affordable Care Act precluded giving subsidies to people on federally run exchanges. Weinstein had seen that argument before, albeit from a different vantage point. Months earlier, he had stumbled across video of Gruber stating that the subsidies to help low-income Americans buy insurance are reserved for state-established exchanges, if only to give states an incentive to establish an exchange.Based on video surfacing over this past weekend, we know now that the President's signature health care law was written in a way to deceive the American people and take advantage of their blind stupidity. The system was set up to hide its true nature, a tax based on the philosophy of "share the wealth."
In a Breitbart-like move, Weinstein gave Gruber a day to go on the airways and explain his comments that the lack of transparency in writing the ACA was intentional and preyed upon the ignorance of the American people. Basically, it was a "speak-o" and Gruber "regretted" saying the "off-the-cuff" comments. Then . . . lo and behold, last night on Kelly File, another video was released:
It appears a very arrogant Jonathan Gruber, obviously proud of legislation he helped create, is quite the Chatty Cathy. And . . . wait for it . . . here's some more good news . . .
A second "stupid" video was shown on megyn kelly last night. That was good, but not the "big one".
— Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) November 12, 2014
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