Jonathan Gruber
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
It's just you can't do it politically. You just literally cannot do it. Transparent financing, and let's talk about transparent financing, also transparent spending. I mean, this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. So it was written to do that.
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said healthy people are going to pay in, it made explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. Okay, just like the people, lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)
And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass. And, you know, it's the second best argument. Look, I wish Mark was right. We can make it all transparent, but I'd rather have this law than not.