ObamaCare architect: 'Stupidity' of voters helped bill pass

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18. I'm not sure they would be idiots to rule against the federal exchange

According to Gruber, subsidies were purposely NOT supposed to available on the federal exchange:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/07/25/obamacare-architect-agreed-with-gop-exchange-subsidies-can-only-flow-through-state-exchanges/

In his remarks, Gruber urged state governments to set up their own health insurance exchanges. A member of the audience asked: “It’s my understanding that if states don’t provide [exchanges], then the federal government will provide them for the states.”

Gruber responded: “What’s important to remember politically about [Obamacare] is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying [to] your citizens you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this.”

(bolding added by me).

That statement pretty much makes lies of all the claims now that it was a typo, or that "state" was meant to mean "state or federal". Based on what one of the architects of the law is saying, the claims of the plaintiffs are correct.