Wonks vs the public: War of attrition

DrRich: “This very issue (whether people are to be permitted to spend their own money protecting their own health) is likely to shape up as the central battle in American healthcare reform. By DrRich’s estimate, the very reason none of today’s prominent Wonkonians are talking about a straightforward government takeover of healthcare (favoring instead a more meandering course to that end), is that they don’t think they can win the ‘individual autonomy’ battle right now. Americans, they judge, still need 5 or 10 years of softening up. But we’re getting there.”