ObamaCare consultant walks back comments about 'stupidity of American voter'

ObamaCare consultant walks back comments about 'stupidity of American voter'

Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor who served as a consultant to the Obama administration while ObamaCare was taking shape, caused a stir after comments he made during a 2013 panel in which he said that the healthcare law's lack of transparency is a "huge political advantage" recently surfaced online.

"Basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass... Look, I wish... we could make it all transparent, but I'd rather have this law than not," Gruber said.

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