We are neither shocked nor surprised at the news that Jonathan Gruber, one of architects of Obamacare, wrote the law in a dishonest way in order for it to win passage; critics of the law have known all along that the law's passage was built on a foundation of false presumptions. We never could understand how a law could increase coverage, reduce premiums, provide more services, lower costs, reduce the deficit and improve healthcare all at the same time. It may have been possible to do one of those things, even a couple of them, but not all of them. Obamacare was overpromised from the beginning, and the embarrassment of the failed website rollout and the dislocations from implementing the law had a great deal to do with the election night debacle suffered by the President's party. Jonathan Gruber is not the first Obamacare advocate to let the truth slip out, and in fact, the Congressional leadership has done so on numerous occasions, including when Nancy Pelosi said, "We have to pass the bill in order to see what is in it." Its very passage was based on failure, with Scott Brown's election as the 41st Republican senator forcing the Democrats to circumvent the normal process for passing a law. Now, with the election of Dan Sullivan in Alaska, the Republicans have 54 seats, and it is brutally apparent that the Obamacare law could never be passed by the next Congress -- or even today: and although there have been many scandals and examples of incompetence buffeting the administration, the Obamacare implementation and its failures probably are the biggest single reason why we have gone from 41 Republican senators to 54.
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