America needs a healthcare reboot that includes a serious examination of what we can do to insure that there is a safety net for the weakest among us after Obamacare is repealed.
Jonathan Gruber (who is standing next to “stupid” above) told the tale in the best way that anyone could. Obamacare was sold to gullible Americans who hoped to get something for nothing. The insurance companies made out, the government took control of 20% of the US Economy and the taxpayer was stuck with a trillion dollar tar baby — a tax.
The Tar-Baby is a fictional character in the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br’er Rabbit. The more that Br’er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes.
Before ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber got famous for calling Americans stupid, he wrote an “ObamaCare for Dummies”-style comic book. The only dummies are those who believe its many fictions, as he explained in the many interviews that I think all of you have seen by now.
In the book, Gruber claims that for individuals and small firms qualifying for a tax credit, “this bill will lower your health care costs.” But Gruber would later go on to tell several states the opposite. One of them was Wisconsin, where he said fewer than 6% would see lower premiums, and 41% would get hit with hikes of 50% or more.
Are Gruber’s lies more egregious than Obama’s “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor – PERIOD!”? No. They’re on the same level because they were made by the same brand of utopian socialist bent on income redistribution.
I'd forgotten all about the Tar Baby. But it comes back, Uncle Remus-style.
As for Gruber, that's something else again.
I liked Uncle Remus, but he's politically incorrect now and Disney has buried him right next to Heckle and Jeckle and Amos of Amos and Andy…only in Germany do they sill have Schwartze Pete (Santa's helper). But that's Germany.
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