BOEHNER'S CAMPAIGN TO GET RID OF OBAMACARE JUST GOT A BIG BOOST FROM A VERY UNEXPICTED WASHINGTON INSIDER

Speaker of the House John Boehner’s campaign to get rid of the Affordable Healthcare Act just got a big boost from a very unexpected Washington insider. Remarks made by Jonathan Gruber (shown above), a healthcare analyst and one of the original architects of the Obama legislation, have just come to light, and they are inflammatory. Gruber participated in a panel discussion at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2013 Annual Health Economics Conference, and he said:

This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. 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 to getting the thing to pass.

After last year’s AHEC video surfaced a few days ago, Gruber hurried to defuse the situation. The Washington Post reports:

Gruber apologized for his incendiary remarks in an on-air interview with MSNBC Tuesday afternoon, calling his comments inappropriate and saying he was speaking “off the cuff.” On Tuesday evening, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly aired a second video, of Gruber calling voters stupid, also from 2013.

Conservatives are outraged at the remarks, which reinforce what most Republican lawmakers already suspected. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told the Washington Post:

We may want to have hearings on this. We shouldn’t be surprised they were misleading us.

Speaker Boehner has remained steadfast in his commitment to kill Obamacare. He has brought the matter to a vote in the House of Representative approximately 40 times, but his efforts have been impeded by Democratic control of the Senate. Now that Republicans have regained control of that body, it appears possible the entire Congress may come together in 2015 to repeal the hated bill once and for all. Of course, Obama would veto such a bill, and Congress would need a solid two-thirds majority in both houses to override the veto.

Obamacare is hurting our economy. It’s hurting middle-class families, and it’s hurting the ability of employers to create more jobs. And so the House I’m sure at some point next year will move to repeal Obamacare. It should be repealed and it should be replaced with common sense reforms that respect the doctor-patient relationship. Now, whether that can pass the Senate, I don’t know. But I know in the House it will pass.

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