Gruber's Grasp

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American Thinker:

“Oregon abolishes its hopelessly bungled health insurance exchange” reported the LA Times on March 7. This $250 million disaster -- a total loss -- is the latest in a series of spectacular failures surrounding the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. These failures began to be revealed, of course, with the inept, incompetent and failed rollout of “Heathcare.gov” website -- which still has no functioning “back end.” Americans are probably wondering whether there will ever be a post-disaster investigation or “after-action report” similar to what might transpire if a helicopter crashes or a bridge collapses. Fortunately, Breitbart News has already unearthed some telling clues. Let’s begin at the beginning:

 

Remember President Obama’s 2009 remarks dripping with sanctimony concerning greedy doctors?

 

“You come in and you’ve got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats,” President Obama explained at Wednesday’s press conference. “The doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself ‘You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.’

 

In other words, those who undertake the Hippocratic Oath can no longer be trusted. Here we see the Democratic Party’s overt contempt for medical professionals; M.D.s cannot be trusted with their patients’ well being unless they are closely supervised by their moral superiors, namely leading Democratic politicians, lawyers and health-care economists.

 

Let’s update this script to 2015 to place in context Breitbart News’s revelations of built-in contract fraud at the heart of the Affordable Care Act. If we were to restate it: The doctor (Prof. Gruber) may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself ‘You know what? I make a lot more money (compared to my MIT salary) if I take this kid’s tonsils out award myself lucrative no-bid personal federal and state consulting contracts as direct statutory requirement of the Affordable Care Act -- of which I am the architect.”