**Written by Doug Powers

Probably the funniest part of the video below is CNN’s Carol Costello asking scam artist-for-hire Jonathan Gruber how to go about “fixing” a disaster of his own creation. Naturally, Gruber disagreed that anything needs “fixing,” but he did recommend one tweak because apparently not enough Americans have been separated from their money yet:

“The law’s working as designed” — in other words, it was supposed to collapse? Well, at least he’s more honest than the rest. And I’m sure that people who aren’t buying policies because they can’t afford the premiums and/or deductibles would really be able to afford a higher “mandate penalty” (remember that thing that John Roberts ruled was a “tax” in order to save the law?).

All the while, the Dems, after having made it illegal to NOT have health insurance (that many can’t even afford to use), are pretending the result of people obeying the mandate is proof that the “product” is very popular:

That number of course includes people who lost coverage because of the Affordable Care Act who had to go buy different plans — several times in many cases.

**Written by Doug Powers

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