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ObamaCare architect: 'Stupidity' of voters helped bill pass | TheHill

'An architect of the federal healthcare law said last year that a "lack of transparency" and the "stupidity of the American voter" helped Congress approve ObamaCare. '

'In a clip unearthed Sunday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Jonathan Gruber appears on a panel and discusses how the reform earned enough votes to pass. '

' Gruber declined to comment in an email.The economist, who helped design a Massachusetts law that inspired ObamaCare, said he wished "we could make it all transparent, but I'd rather have this law than not."'

'He suggested that many lawmakers and voters didn't know what was in the law or how its financing worked, and that this helped it win approval."Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber said. '

'"And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."Gruber made the comment while discussing how the law was "written in a tortured way" to avoid a bad score from the Congressional Budget Office. '

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