A third video emerged Wednesday of MIT economist Jonathan Gruber , one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act , or Obamacare , insulting voters and suggesting their ignorance was exploited by those pushing passage of the health care law . Neither the White House nor Gruber would comment . In this one , Gruber was discussing how then-Sen. John Kerry , D-Massachusetts , pushed forward a way to add a tax on expensive health insurance plans , or `` Cadillac Plans , '' that would purportedly tax the insurance companies though Gruber suggests everyone knew the companies would just pass on the additional cost to customers . `` It 's a very clever , you know , basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter , '' Gruber said at the Honors Colloquium 2012 at the University of Rhode Island . The moment is at about 29:25 in this video . The video was first reported by The Daily Caller . Over the weekend , media first became aware of a video of Gruber making a similar remark -- that the unintelligent voters were hoodwinked by those pushing passage of Obamacare , which was in his view for the good . That video , from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 ( which you can see here ) featured Gruber saying , `` If you had a law which said healthy people are going to pay in -- if you made it explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money , it would not have passed , OK ? Just like how people -- transparent -- lack of transparency is a huge advantage . And basically , you know , call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever . But basically that was really , really critical to getting the thing to pass . '' Gruber said he wished `` we could make it all transparent . But I 'd rather have this law than not . '' Asked for reaction to the video , Senator-elect Thom Tillis , R-NC , told The Lead that it sounded like Gruber was arguing that `` the ends justify the means ... That is exactly what the American people are tired of . They want transparency . They want to be treated with respect . We did a lot of very difficult bills since I 've been speaker of the house ( of the North Carolina legislature ) . Some of them were controversial on both sides of the ideological spectrum . But we took the time to explain it to people and not do this sort of bob and weave . '' On Tuesday , Gruber went on MSNBC to offer a mea culpa . `` I was speaking off the cuff and I spoke inappropriately , and I regret making those comments , '' he said . But then more videos emerged . Last night , Megyn Kelley on Fox News showed another excerpt of a Gruber lecture , this from Washington University at St. Louis in 2013 , where he said `` they proposed it and that passed , because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference . '' The videos were documented over the course of the last year by Rich Weinstein , an investment adviser who became interested in the origins of the law after the price of insurance for his family doubled . Weinstein tells CNN he has many more videos in his collection .
Economist Jonathan Gruber is considered one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act . A series of videos of Gruber show him suggesting voters were fooled into backing the law . Gruber said Tuesday on MSNBC that he regretted his previous comments .