Waste of air time.
The media echo chamber problem does not get more obvious than this.
ABC News hosted Jonathan Gruber this week after a judge in Texas declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.
Yes, that Jonathan Gruber. In a country of 325 million, the network turned to the one person who absolutely can’t be trusted to speak honestly about Obamacare to explain why the judge’s ruling is wrong. It’s a real mystery why the news media have a credibility problem.
“If they decide to strike this down, what’s at risk is enormous, both for individual health and for the health of our democracy,” Gruber told ABC News. “If the ACA goes away, that means 17 million people lose their health insurance. That means that 133 million Americans with pre-existing conditions can now be denied insurance because of those conditions. That means that those under age 26 can no longer get health insurance on their parents’ plan.”
He added, “This is a broad-reaching law which has fundamentally changed U.S. healthcare. And what’s crazy about this decision is the notion that [because the individual mandate] is taken away, the whole law has to come down. … This judge is essentially saying, ‘I don’t like what Congress said. I’m going to side differently.’”