Obamacare: Jonathan Gruber was warning of premium hikes while Barack Obama was promising savings

  It has recently been reported that the most popular Obamacare plans are going to see a rise in their premiums an average of 10%. We all remember Barack Obama running across the nation promising anybody who would listen that his healthcare plan would save the average American family about $2,500. So what happened?

  Apparently nothing that was not expected, at least if you are Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber, because according to this story he released a report for the state of Wisconsin in 2010 which predicted massive healthcare premium increases.

  Here is more:

Mr. Gruber’s study predicted about 90 percent of individuals without employer-sponsored or public insurance would see their premiums spike by an average of 41 percent. Once tax subsidies were factored in, about 60 percent of those in the individual market were projected to see their premiums go up 31 percent, according to his analysis.

In addition, 53 percent of those insured by companies with fewer than 50 employees, would see their premiums rise by an average of 15 percent even after subsidies, Mr. Gruber forecasted. The report warned such increases could impact small companies’ decision whether to provide health insurance to their workers.

  You can clearly see that he predicted skyrocketing premiums even after the subsidies were factored into the equation. It is true that this report was for one state but does anyone really believe the results would be different if the study was conducted in any or all of the other states?

  Yet at the same time Barack Obama was telling everybody that his plan would save people money. Just another deception and a known untruth at the time of its utterance. Kind of like this one: if you like your plan you can keep your plan…