Bill Maher appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room” today to discuss a wide range of topics, from health care reform to Sarah Palin’s resignation. But he stressed one point: that society now attaches a for-profit motive to everything, including things that were once considered too important to leave in the hands of those whose first motive is to make money:

A generation or two ago, not everything in this country had to be for-profit. Some areas were roped off and we said that’s just too important to put the profit motive in… But we’ve changed, we’ve become a different society. Everything has