…a seminal moment in American politics from George Will. Will and Robert Reich debated health-care reform yesterday on ABC’s This Week, and Will punctured two of Reich’s arguments. First, he refuted the idea of windfall profits at health insurers, whose margins typically range from 2% -6%, depending on the year. (Computer manufacturers have 20% margins by comparison.) But Will scores an even bigger point when he reduces Reich’s retort to its basic premise — that Americans are just too stupid to act on their own:
George Will: “There you have the premise of this legislation and the core of today’s liberalism: the American people are such dopes they can’t be counted upon to buy their own insurance.”
