Post by southparkcpa on Jan 22, 2019 16:00:15 GMT -5
Dec 18, 2018 22:44:56 GMT -5 @cheechmoron said:
The insurance lobby wrote the ACA. Insurance Lobby??? I don't see that at all. Obama jammed it down our throats. Just Google it.
At an October 2013 panel, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the Affordable Care Act, admitted that it was passed by exploiting political ignorance. If voters had known that the law would work by forcing young and healthy people to provide massive new subsidies for the old and sick, he doubts that it could have gotten through Congress:
In both cases, people who studied the plan carefully could readily tell that the administration’s statements were deceptive. Forcing millions of people to buy more comprehensive and more expensive health insurance plans than they had previously was an important element of the ACA – a feature, not a bug. This was well understood by health care experts on both of sides of the debate over the law, and seized on by opponents early on. But a majority of the public is often ignorant about even simple aspects of the political system, such as which party controls which house of Congress. The problem of political ignorance is exacerbated by the enormous size and complexity of modern government, which makes it difficult for even relatively attentive voters to keep track of more than a small fraction of what the state is doing. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that the administration’s deceptions about Obamacare fooled enough people to ensure its passage.