[CNSNEWS] Sen.-elect James Lankford (R-Okla.) told 'Fox News Sunday' that Obamacare architect and MIT professor Jonathan Gruber's comments reflect an 'arrogance of centralized government.'
'I think Gruber's comments show what is consistent in Washington, it's this arrogance of centralized government. This administration really believes they're smarter than everyone else and they need to just create the policy and impose the policy, and states exist only to be able to carry out their wishes from the central government. And I think that's exactly backwards,' he said.
'Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get anything to pass,' Gruber said in a newly surfaced video of comments he made in 2013.
'What is it that you think, given the fact that the president will certainly veto any outright repeal of Obamacare, what do you think the new Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate can actually accomplish in Obamacare over the next two years?' 'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace asked Lankford.
'The best thing that we can actually do is return health care decisions back to states, back to local authorities. Health care compacts, all the different things that actually return those authorities back to the states,' Lankford said. 'We have $50 billion -- $50 billion last year in Medicare fraud, $50 billion.'
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"I think Gruber's comments show what is consistent in Washington, [Moscow, Beijing] it's this arrogance of centralized government."