A short note on the rhetoric of George Will
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Today on This Week, George Will flapped his gums to utter this turd of non-wisdom: “Now that insurance companies are going to be essentially public utilities, now that the Obama administration essentially owns the health-care system, every disappointment with that system … is going to be laid at their doorstep.”
Really, Mr. Will? Health insurance companies are being turned into public utilities? The state now “owns” the health-care system?
You don’t need an advanced education to see that both those statements are doubtful at best. In particular, I find it incomprehensible that an intelligent person could say the state owns a health-care system whose insurers and hospitals and clinics and medical practices are nearly all privately held.
I know — he uses that great weasel word “essentially” to soften each of his assertions. But I’m still surprised economist Paul Krugman let that codswallop slide by without correction, and indeed ridicule.
To her credit, one panelist shot down another dubious Will assertion, that health-care reform will burden state governments and have other scary “unintended consequences that will boggle your mind.”
Said Donna Brazile: “I think we’re going to spend the next six months once again trying to debunk all of these myths, and these lies, and this misinformation that’s been [spread] on the Internet over these last couple of years. The truth is, is that this is a strong bill that will provide relief not just to those individuals without insurance but [also] those individuals with insurance who have seen their premiums rise by 25-39 per cent. They are also concerned that they are one flu away or one sickness away from losing their health insurance.”
I’m fascinated and frustrated as I watch members of the United States’ affluent punditocracy discuss health care with little thought to the 30-50 million who don’t have health insurance, or the tens of millions more who have policies but get screwed by a heartless system that’s barbaric in its morality (or lack of it) compared to what Euros and Canadians have.
Honestly, conservatives like George Will are hurting America by perpetuating lies and reinforcing attitudes of selfishness and heartlessness. They are enemies of the people.
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I heard some other rightwinger mention this “public utilities” angle Friday. I guess Rove was up late working on a set of new talking points.
Or maybe that dickwad Luntz has determined people respond negatively to the word “utilities.” Which would be strange, since people should like the folks who supply them with water and electricity.
…or so one would think!
George Will has desperately endeavored to be the heir apparent to William Buckley. Neither of them said much that was really that inciteful or brilliant. Their magic was making bored and frequent use of obscure words to make the weak and closed minded think they knew what in hell they were talking about.
I agree with that Truth!!
If you didn’t agree with Truth, wouldn’t that mean you’re in denial?
Ha! Good one Stimpson.
LOL LOL!
Will can definitely be a hack in intellectual’s clothing.
I despise George Will and have stopped reading what he writes. He is more of a Tea Bagger, albeit it with a more cerebral bent, than he is not.
Agreed. His erudition makes him seem more than he is.
er, more reasonable than he is.
George Will is mean spirited, unless he is writing about baseball, that’s his true love, he should stick to it.
Otherwise, he’s off-base?
LOL!
Holte, Geo. Will can’t even get baseball right. Jerk like the designated hitter rule as much as he likes the private insurance companies’ rule.
So he doesn’t even like real baseball?
He doesn’t like anything real.