Friday, September 18, 2009

O'Reilly flip-flops, endorses public option - DWTF?!

Ummm... alrighty then. Good for Bill O'Reilly! (Gee, I bet you never thought I'd say that).


Partial Trancript
September 16, 2009 | The O'Reilly Factor

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 (Heritage Foundation - conservative think tank): 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.


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