The real lesson from 'Grubergate'

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Author(s) Luke Hilgemann
Source USA Today
Date December 1, 2014
URL http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/11/29/affordable-care-act-jonathan-gruber-column/19352877/
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Quotes-start.png The "Cadillac" tax is another textbook case of how a incomprehensible law can be exploited to disguise harmful legislation. The Obama administration wanted to eliminate the tax break for employer-provided health insurance as a way to pay for Obamacare. But like the individual mandate, if voters saw it for what it really was — another tax increase on middle-class Americans— the bill would have been dead on arrival. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.