Politics

Why Do We Need Health Care Reform? Don't Ask George Will

By Wendell Potter

One of the things I hope to do with my blog is to call out misleading statements and statistics, outright lies and illogical assertions by opponents of meaningful health care reform?and to rat out the front groups that insurers and other special interests are funding to kill reform or, failing that, shape it to their benefit.

I?m starting with a biggie, conservative author and columnist George Will, who suggests in his June 28 column in The Washington Post that, because of the complexity and expense of reforming the American health care system, maybe we would be better off just leaving well enough alone.

Well enough? For him, maybe. He?s got a great gig at the Post and as a TV network pundit, and he has sold lots of books, so he probably doesn?t have to worry, as most other Americans do, about being just one layoff away from joining the 50 million other men, women and children in the ranks of the uninsured. And even if the Post gave him a pink slip this afternoon, chances are he has stashed enough away that he can afford to shell out the nearly $13,000 that the average annual premium for decent family coverage costs these days (and that was in 2007).

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Full post as published by PR Watch on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).