George Will vs Robert Reich – So easy a caveman can do it

On This Week liberal stateist economist Robert Reich contends the reason we need health care (or is it health insurance?) reform is because the American people just don’t understand health insurance. That’s enough to set the normally calm George Will off.The battle lines are drawn when Will contends allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines will immediately bring down premiums, and then has the line of the morning. So easy a caveman can do it?

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLAFbSlr2bI

Maybe so, but not the American people, explains Reich. Insurance companies are evil, and without government control and mandates (i.e. the Federal Government deciding what kind of insurance we all should have) the insurance companies will just dupe us.

That was all Will needed to hear.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHWgGoXsDpw

Just thought I would throw this in for Reich. Competition!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBs27pJZnR0

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

7 Comments

  1. donh on March 8, 2010 at 3:52 am

    Great segment Jim. Will nailed Reich's knee jerk elitism on the spot. Reich believes the common man is too stupid to buy insurance on his own…..here is the true Rober Reich view of health reform…kill the old speech. ….



  2. donh on March 8, 2010 at 3:52 am


  3. Anne-EH on March 8, 2010 at 4:50 am

    Jim, with how Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhh, doing a Rush Limbaugh here, by what he had been saying, sound so patrionizing. He treats us like we are idiots or worse. Even a cave man can do a better job at doing a Sunday morning tv talk show.



  4. Anne-EH on March 8, 2010 at 5:08 am

    Well Jim, it has been posted. :)=^..^=
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466405/



  5. porschepete on March 8, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    That's right we are too dumb to understand health insurance but not too  dumb to pay taxes. This health care bill is a tax bill they need to pass it to pay down the debt.

    Mr. Reich is just adding  fuel to the fire with these comments.



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