http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-25/obamacare-s-smoking-gun-fires-again
Last night, the Competitive Enterprise Institute broke a heck of a
story: A video showed Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of the
Affordable Care Act, supporting the plaintiff's argument in Halbig v. Burwell.
For
those who haven't been obsessively reading this blog, this was the case
in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
just ruled that premium subsidies could only legally be made available
on state exchanges, not exchanges established by the federal government.
Liberals have been arguing that this is a clearly ridiculous view of
the law and one no reasonable person could endorse. Yet in the video,
Gruber, a highly regarded economist who has done extensive work on the
law for both the Barack Obama administration and state agencies, stated
this as a fact. Moreover, he said that this would give states a clear
incentive to establish exchanges -- which is, coincidentally, exactly
why the plaintiffs in Halbig have argued that Congress restricted
subsidies to states.
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