jonathan gruber. for stupid. i mean, absolutely stupid comments he made over the past few years. this will not help americans get health insurance. house oversight committee spent time grilling gruber. he apologized for saying the passage of obamacare relied on the stupidity of the american voter. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle took him to task for his comments but as congressman elijah cummings said, this may make for good political theater but it doesn t help a single person get health care. all this does is overshadow the real successes of obamacare. instead of focusing on gruber, we should be focusing on the 10.3 million people who gained health insurance in the affordable care act s first year. call-up estimates that 5% of
tape club. my dad never let me joined that. i really wanted to join that. i thought it was such a good deal. your dad knew that that bill was going to come later. same with single payer. this is a performer, because u you do a lot of standup comedy and things. gruber has to perform in front of his students. do you think he s embarrassed at all going back to the class room after being so arrogant about how stupid american people were. he was arrogant in front of his students, but in front of congress, he ate humble pie. anyone who sits in front of those hearings, looks like the victims. and the villains are all those people yelling at them from on high. he refutued the thing that w had him dead to the wall on tape, that he was the ark teblgt
voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass. americans are too stupid to understand the difference. very clever basic exploitation of the lack of understanding of the american voter. where is the real gruber here? have you been able to ascertain in your mind which gruber was telling the truth? well, i think it was pretty transparent to all of us that this was an incredibly smart educated individual that made millions of dollars directly and indirectly duping the american people and now he wants to say that all those comments that he made, if you will, in academia, where nobody said there was a problem with lying, tricking and deceiving the american people didn t mean anything. but he said it again and again and again. and he said it in front of large audiences and only now are we realizing that, in fact, part of the plan from day one of getting the single payer government-run
they re trying to link him with king republican, mitt romney saying obviously, gruber worked with mitt romney a lot more than he worked with president obama so they re just trying to do this political, you know, back and forth. the reality is i see patients every day that did not have health care and now they do. that s just the bottom line. well, look. the open enrollment ends february 15th. what during this period do you want americans to know that will facilitate more americans getting coverage? what i want them to know, no matter any smoke screen being put out there, they need to go online and register so that they can get health insurance. if you don t have health insurance, we know that the odds of you going bankrupt from any illness are exponentially increased. and people don t like to think about it like that but just breaking your leg and having a surgery can brumt you. that s what obamacare was put into place for any way. to stop the insurance companies from running peopl
of lies. here now to take us inside that hearing is house oversight committee chairman california congressman darrell issa. let s go back and let s go to gruber s comments where he called the american people stupid, among other things. listen to this. to get a law which said healthy people are going to pay in sick people get money, it would not have passed. okay? just like to have people transparent lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. and basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass. americans are too stupid to understand the difference. very clever basic exploitation of the lack of understanding of the american voter. where is the real gruber here? have you been able to ascertain in your mind which gruber was telling the truth? well, i think it was pretty transparent to all of us that this was an incredibly smart