A Gem from Pearlstein

In this morning’s Washington Post (man, I need to do my blogging earlier in the day), business columnist Steven Pearlstein dings Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) for “demonizing the drug companies and health insurers, and turning them into opponents” when she should be enlisting their support for health care reform.


Pearlstein’s column includes this gem:

[Y]ou have to have a pretty finely calibrated moral yardstick to see how drug companies and insurers are any worse than hospitals and doctors, who profit just as handsomely from the current system and have been just as dogged in opposing reasonable reform. And you could add to that list the medical‐​equipment makers, laboratories and nursing‐​home operators.

Yes, there are plenty of bootleggers behind government control of health care. Here’s hoping they don’t start making nice‐​nice with the Baptists.