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Jonathan Gruber: Obamacare Rollout Is ‘Going To Be A Nightmare’

Patrick Howley Political Reporter
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Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said that the Obamacare rollout was “going to be a nightmare.”

Gruber made one of his few accurate predictions in 2013 at Northwestern University’s IPR/John H. Hollister Lecture shortly before the Obama administration launched its rollout with a glitch-ridden website.

Gruber currently awaits a call-back before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill. (RELATED: Daily Caller Publishes First Video Of Gruber Calling American Voters ‘Stupid’)

President Obama’s re-election was one of the preconditions for the law’s successful implementation said Gruber, identified by Northwestern as “a key architect” of Obamacare. Implementation was the biggest hurdle.

“This is the least worrisome because it’s going to be implemented successfully in a number of places,” Gruber said. “It’s also the most worrisome because it’s going to be a nightmare in many places.”

Gruber also said in the lecture that there would be major obstacles to cost control in the law and discussed the comic book that he wrote about health care reform.

“In my graphic novel, the individual mandate is the spinach we have to eat to get to the dessert that is fairly-priced insurance coverage,” Gruber bizarrely noted.

What about Romneycare, passed by the Republican gearing up for another presidential campaign in 2016?

“Mitt Romney is the hero of our story actually, and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise,” Gruber said.

Could Gruber also close his lecture by patronizing the tea party?…YES!

I have this dream that someone will stand up and say, ‘Keep the government’s hands off my ACA.'” (RELATED: ‘Don’t Tread On My Obamacare)

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