The article “Healthcare Debate Has Shown Us True Colors” is spot on. It shows us the writer’s “TRUE COLORS”. When President Trump said he wanted to “drain the swamp” only those lacking knowledge and awareness would take that to mean Democrats only.

To bring up the Health Care bill after the complete failure of Obamacare only shows ones inability to move forward. Obsequiousness does us injustice on the political front and certainly does not do us any good as voters. I am sure that most readers can think for themselves and are not sycophantic for one party.

Obama made a sweeping pledge that “no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.

And according the prepared remarks, he promised doctors “we can build a health care system that allows you to be physicians instead of administrators and accountants. I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.”

It all turned out to be a bunch of horse poop. And to top it all off he had Jonathan Gruber, the main architect of the bill, do numerous presentations where-by he called the American voter stupid.

Here are some of his quotes. “If you have a law that makes explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it wouldn’t have passed,” Gruber said in a video from 2013. “It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.” “If any American really believed that Obamacare is going to control costs, I’ve got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I’d like to sell them.” “Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.” “The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.” “When we’re done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.” “P.T. Barnum said a sucker (American voter) is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.”

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really critical for the thing to pass.” “The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness” ( scruffy, untidy, messy, unkempt, disheveled, slobbish, scuzzy, slipshod, raggedy, bedraggled ).

The president of the United States, President Obama, personally crafted a major Obamacare deception with Jonathan Gruber who served as his top administration consultant during the writing of Obamacare and credited an intentional lack of transparency for Obamacare’s passage.

Gruber said the law survived an existential threat posed by “the stupidity of the American voter.” The president of the United States continually called on Gruber even after this nut kept making disparaging remarks about our intelligence. He said his administration was going to be more transparent than any other and lied to our face. It turned out to be not transparent at all. Obamacare was an orchestrated big fat lie and he knew it right along. He played us for fools and many bought right into it. So don’t bring up garbage about the ACA that is currently under review and has not been rolled out as of yet.

The writer uses words like disgraceful version of the repeal and replace act, glaringly missing was any concern for those sick and poor ( where are they now with Obamacare), and tries to shame us about President Trump’s remarks regarding John McCain ( more Mumbo Jumbo). It is almost laughable the way some individuals keep bringing up non sensible blind hatred towards our president but are impervious to the fact that President Obama has shown us his “TRUE COLORS” and how he really feels about our intelligence or should I say our non intelligence. Well, at least he has one friend.

And the president lied right to our face and was well aware that his plan would NOT control cost and was going to implode. He was probably hoping that crooked Hillary would get elected so as not to expose his wily subterfuge.

Since the writer has so much love and affection for the past 8 years of the Obama Administration and Obamacare maybe he could educate us on how and why it failed. And while your at it please do a piece on how wonderful this country would be with crooked Hillary Clinton as president. Or maybe he can just blame it all on Trump.

Bruce Piatz is a Jamestown resident.