Inside Track
Gruber, Tavenner Answer to Congress for ObamaCare Controversies
Gruber is answering for a video of his appearance at a panel hosted by the Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics on October 17, 2013, that only recently went viral. It was on that panel that he admitted that though the individual mandate was upheld by the Supreme Court because it was perceived as a tax, it is in fact not a tax. He explained,
This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO [the Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.
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.
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