Why did Team Obama choose to go this route? One explanation is suggested by the infamous remarks of Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist who was videotaped telling an academic conference in 2013 that the law was deliberately “written in a tortured way” with a “lack of transparency” that was meant to confuse evaluators and thus get it past the clueless and bewildered public. (Gruber’s exact phrase was “the stupidity of the American voter.”2)
