Barro on Health Insurance: People Can't Be Trusted, We Need Gruber

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Some liberals like to pass Josh Barro off as a conservative. The New York Times correspondent debunked that notion himself, tweeting that he was most easily understood as a "moderate." But after his appearance on MSNBC today, another term might more aptly apply: elitist liberal.

Speaking with Alex Wagner, Barro crammed a carload of condescension into thirty seconds. Barro claimed that health insurance is "weirdly complicated," and thus that Americans can't be permitted to choose it as they would other products. No, we can't let people use their "own judgment." The free market "doesn't work very well" with health insurance. Individuals can't be "trusted" with it, and thus government must be involved and we need people like . . . Jonathan Gruber.

View the video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Guy who liberals call a conservative says we can’t trust people to choose their health insurance—we need government and people like Gruber. Ping to Today show list.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

conservative says we can’t trust people to choose their health insurance

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Well ultraconservative Mittens and McCain thought so.

[mylife]

If Barro wants his Gruber he can keep his Gruber.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

LOL: perfect!

[cripplecreek]

Typical progressive thought.

[mylife]

Thank You.... Thank you very mush. ☺

[Fred Hayek]

And Walter Lippmann was an apologist for Stalin.

[mylife]

Someday the idiots on our side will stop wearing the agenda on their sleeves, giving the tip off.

[cripplecreek]

And naturally a newspaper man.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Homosexual.

[Maceman]

And Walter Lippmann was an apologist for Stalin.

I think you mean Walter Duranty.