Bill O'Reilly Backs Public Health Care Option

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

Bombastic Fox News host Bill O'Reilly made a rather notable policy pronouncement on Wednesday's show: he supports the creation of a government-managed health care plan if it provides working Americans with an affordable option to other private insurance plans.

In other words, he supports the public option now being hotly debated in Congress.

As noted by DailyKos' Jed Lewison, O'Reilly had the following exchange with the Heritage Foundation's Nina Owcharenko:

O'REILLY: The public option now is done. We discussed this, it's not going to happen. But you say that this little marketplace that they're going to set up, whereby the federal government would subsidize insurance for some Americans, that is, in your opinion, a public option?


OWCHARENKO: Well, it has massive new federal regulation. So you don't necessarily need a public option if the federal government is going to control and regulate the type of health insurance that Americans can buy.

O'REILLY: But you know, I want that, Ms. Owcharenko. I want that. I want, not for personally for me, but for working Americans, to have a option, that if they don't like their health insurance, if it's too expensive, they can't afford it, if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that as a plus for the folks.



Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/bill-oreilly-backs-public_n_290658.html

[sakabatou]

1. Either someone switched his body

Or maybe he's gonna get replaced.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

6. maybe they'll put beck in oreilly's spot

and hire lou dobbs for glenn beck's old spot...

[rbrnmw]

7. I have heard from someone whose daughter is

dating a fox news intern, that Billo is leaving Fox along with Shep Smith in the near future. Glenn Beck will move to O'Reilly's time slot and Laura Ingram is getting a show in Beck's slot

[Bolo Boffin]

2. What do you know about that?

Bill O'Reilly can read a poll.

[Libertas1776]

3. Is it possible that

he is preparing a move to CNN, kind of like the absolute reverse of what Glenn Blech did, to a more less bat shit crazy, but still pretty crazy anchor, talk show, pundit thingy position?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. WOW... this is Bill, right?

WOW

Welcome to the fight Bill, in the best spirit of Teddy, I will let your better angel guide on this, and stand side by side.

[anonymous171]

5. Wow. nt

[Happyhippychick]

8. He's still a dick. He just happened to get one right.