#Gruber gives republicans cover for their killer lies about Obamacare

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#Gruber gives republicans cover for their killer lies about Obamacare

by Jon Perr at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/17/1345598/--Gruber-gives-Republicans-cover-for-their-killer-lies-about-Obamacare

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For Democrats, the discovery that Romneycare and Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber is, well, a schmuck represents a triple whammy. For starters, the arrogance of anyone calling American voters "stupid" (or even just 47 percent of them) helps perpetuate every conservative stereotype of pointy-headed Northeastern elites. Worse still, Gruber is simply wrong that key aspects of the Affordable Care Act's funding and structure—about individual mandate penalties, the "Cadillac tax" on high-end health plans and that younger, healthier enrollees would in essence subsidize—were somehow kept secret from the public. But most damaging, Gruber has given Republicans cover for perhaps the greatest campaign of political deception in modern American history, one that continues to misinform people about Obamacare while needlessly leaving millions without health insurance in the very states where GOP control is strongest.

All along, Republicans' greatest fear hasn't been that the Affordable Care Act would fail, but that it would succeed. So to prevent that from happening, the Party of Lincoln turned to a strategy that perverts the wisdom of its namesake:


"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and that's our target market."

That Republican mantra may have failed to stop the passage of Obamacare, but it was shockingly successful at ensuring that red states continue to have the worst healthcare systems in America. Consider just a handful of the GOP's killer lies about Obamacare:




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