Gruber In 2009 Warned That Obamacare Was Not Designed To Reduce Costs As Opposed To Guarantee Coverage

jonathanTurleyMIT professor Jonathan Gruber has produced a firestorm of controversy over remarks made in various settings about the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and how drafters like himself relied on the “stupidity” of voters in passing the legislation. It appears that the Gruber hits keep coming, even as he prepares for another round of questioning in Congress. The latest comments from 2009 reveal Gruber saying that Obamacare would not produce affordable health care for many citizens since its focus is coverage not costs. This statement made five months before the passage of the Act from a key architect is in stark contrast to President Obama’s repeated assertions that premiums would go down dramatically. The latest statement will fuel questioning before Congress on whether the White House knew that premiums were unlikely to do down and that people would not be able to keep their current policies as promised by President Obama in selling the program.

Gruber stated in 2009 that Obamacare lacked cost controls in it and would not be affordable for many:

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Jon Rappoport ~ Obamacare Deception

“Well, here is the reality. By the most conservative estimate, the US medical system kills 2,250,000 people per decade. That’s the system that’s heading for massive expansion under Obamacare.” – J Rappoport

Everybody knows Jonathan Gruber now. He was a consultant who helped frame the Obamacare law.

He’s stated that that, yes, Obamacare has a tax in its provisions, and yes the public was deceived.

Gruber: “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies…[I]f you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”

Tax? Penalty? Tax? Penalty?

Either way, Obamacare is an order, a command, from on high.

The whole debate hides the real fact: people are being coerced into a system that kill and maims at a staggeringly high level.

No one in Congress or the White House brought that up during the process of promoting and passing the bill. Too hot to handle. Much too hot. Continue reading

Insurance Companies Writing ‘Ebola Exclusions’ Into Policies

“It’s a great time to run a pharmaceutical or insurance company in America – ain’t it?” – C Sarich

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Remember the promise of universal health care with Obamacare, with no refusal for ‘pre-existing conditions’? It looks like your insurance company may not have to cover you if you get Ebola. U.S. and British insurance companies have begun writing Ebola exclusions into standard policies to cover hospitals, event organizers, and other businesses vulnerable to local disruptions.

While it is estimated that expenditures to treat the original Dallas Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, were approximately $100,000 an hour (though he passed anyway), it looks like insurance companies won’t be footing the bill.

President Obama originally refused to set up travel restrictions in and out of West Africa, too, even though the governments latest scare tactics and the CDC’s ineptitude have resulted in insurance companies creating new policies which exclude Ebola care. Renewals will also become costlier for companies opting to insure business travel to West Africa or to cover the risk of losses from quarantine shutdowns at home.

Gary Flynn, an event cancellation broker at Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group Plc in London said:

“What underwriters are doing at the moment is they’re generally providing quotes either excluding or including Ebola – and it’s much more expensive if Ebola is included.”

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RT News ~ World News Links (August 1 2014)

Pro-Israel Tory MP Condemns ‘Disproportionate’ IDF Gaza Offensive

 

 Prominent pro-Israeli Tory MP, Margot James, urges the government to adopt a policy shift on the Gaza crisis. (Photo from Wikipedia.org)

Prominent pro-Israeli Tory MP, Margot James, urges the government to adopt a policy shift on the Gaza crisis. (Photo from Wikipedia.org)

Conservative MP Margot James, an aide to former Foreign Secretary William Hague, has written to new Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond, urging him to rethink the coalition’s policy towards the ongoing conflict. Observers say the letter is a clear sign of growing disquiet within the coalition government over Israel’s aggressive military campaign.

In her letter, the Stourbridge MP expressed sorrow and disbelief at the sheer scale of Palestinian suffering that has emerged since the bloody conflict began three weeks ago. Ms James told Hammond she was writing to him on behalf of many of her constituents who had contacted her directly to “register their despair at the loss of life in Gaza.”

‘Wholly Disproportionate’

Her constituents, mostly non-Muslims, regard Israel’s military action in the region as “wholly disproportionate to the threat posed by Hamas,” she said.

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Selected RT_News LInks

Majority of Americans dislike Obamacare

Mass immigration to strain UK infrastructure – report

Third of Tory voters favour Ukip coalition – poll

WWI tragedy reminder of dangers of excessive ambitions – Putin

Ukraine MH17 may be CIA false flag and it ain’t flying

Kiev did use ballistic missiles in E. Ukraine, NATO source confirms to DW

‘Wrong time, altered images’: Moscow slams Kiev’s MH17 satellite data

FL mother charged with neglect for allowing son to play in park unsupervised

Turkey PM slams Israel for ‘Hitler-like fascism’

25 dead, over 270 injured as multiple gas explosions hit Taiwan city

‘Nightmare bacteria’ spreading rapidly in Southeastern US

German general becomes first non-American to serve as US Army Europe’s chief of staff

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Obamacare Was Crafted To Control The People

“. . . stop ObamaCare before it’s too late – . . . Once this thing is in place, it will be a cancer that can only spread as it develops tentacles into EVERY PART of government and EVERY PART of our lives.” ~Start Thinking Right

charagma_markObamaCare is simply godawful and frankly evil in numerous ways.  Obama is trying to deceive millions of people – most especially poor people and young people – to buy his demonic product under the promise of a low premium.  But if you actually look at the result of buying that low premium ObamaCare plan, you will see that you get something else: a stratospherically high deductible.

Think about that.  I bought a $328 Silver ObamaCare plan because Obama forced me to do so.  But I don’t actually get any HEALTH CARE when I buy that plan for that $328.  Nope, I have to pay all the bills until I get to the $2,500 deductible first.  Only THEN will the plan actually do a damn thing to cover me.

Remember Obama and the Democrats (which stands for “Demonic Bureaucrats,” btw) said over and over again that the reason we needed ObamaCare was because too many people were going to the emergency rooms to get health care and then of course not paying for that care, which overwhelmed the health care system.

How many poor people can afford those kinds of deductibles???

ObamaCare will do NOTHING to slow down the flood of people flocking to the emergency rooms for treatment. Continue reading