Bill O'Reilly's take on health insurance

[Deja Q]

A guy who e-mailed his show was responding to one of yesterday's topics. He responded in a cynical way about not having health care and other things.

Bill responds that nobody is entitled to anything and the usual credo of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.

Hmmm, if that's how our government is run - in true Thatcher style* - then how come people are not enlisting?

How can they spin things so people feel guilty for not enlisting? After all, we've had the mindset engineered into society for almost 30 years.

The same people also whine and meander why people are getting more violent, engaging in nasty crimes, and so on.

Methinks we are a society, whether everybody within wants to believe it or not.

:shrug:


* after all, "We are not a society. We are individual men, women, and families" is their credo.

[walldude]

1. Well maybe Billo can explain how I can find a provider

willing to take my money. Those pesky kids and their "pre-existing conditions" are a real drain on society and insurance companies. Fucking asshole.

[SharonAnn]

6. I'm sure he doesn't have employer paid health insurance. He's got bootstraps!

So he must've found his own provider or he does without. Im sure of it.

Otherwise, he'd be hypocritical, accepting employer aid health insurance but telling others they shouldn't have it.e

[Goblinmonger]

9. The "pre-existing" thing sucks

My son (11) has asthma. I am a teacher and have really good health insurance (one of the very positive compensation aspects of being in education) and my wife's company offers really shitty health insurance. We carry both because if something happened to one of us, we don't want my son to be uncovered for any amount of time or the insurance bastards will never cover any of his asthma needs ever again.

Did I mention I hate insurance companies?

[RevCheesehead]

2. I thought he was taking on Rosie O'Donnell.

Really, Bill - don't you worry about being stretched too far?

[Deja Q]

4. I also loved his comment about how the US gives subsidy $ to Mexico

I so wanted to ask him via e-mail if we should stop giving Mexico the $ and apply it to the National Debt(tm) instead.

Assuming I'd ever have gotten one, I'd expect any response to be an interesting one...

[muntrv]

5. They same way he took on the rapper Ludacriss? That'll be a success.

:sarcasm:

[AlCzervik]

3. Billo would like to see the herd culled imo, when people do not have health insurance

everybody loses and it's not a matter of "Pulling yourself up by your boot straps" either.

[gatorboy]

7. Considering the average age of his audience, I challenge Bill to shun Medicare on his show.

Say we should completely shut down Medicare.

C'mon, Bill. I dare ya!

[dflprincess]

8. You'd think Billo, of all people, would at least be pushing for

mental health parity - God knows he needs it.

Or, maybe, he's afraid he'd lose what's left of his audience if they could get the help they need.

[Goblinmonger]

10. I liked his claim that is wasn't mentioned in the Constitution

and therefore wasn't an issue. How fucking stupid is he? It has to be in the Constitution for it to be a right? So education could just go out the window because it isn't breathed in the Constitution? What an asshat.

[PA Democrat]

11. He's a fucking asshole.

Try being self-employed with pre-existing health conditions. It's not a matter of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps; it's about the filthy greed of insurance companies who think that they are entitled to make big bucks by denying health care to people. Profits are more important than people's lives, and Bill O is okey-dokey with that. He's a filthy cretin.

[kevinbgoode]

12. So when is Bill going to "pull himself up by his bootstraps"

and produce something of value in this society instead of prostituting his sorry loud mouth on the public airwaves? It isn't as if he actually EARNED his position. . .why, I'll bet his hardest job was attending the right cocktail parties to get the right connections.

Isn't that the part the conservatives always overlook when they haul out the "hard work" myth formula for complete success?

[Colobo]

13. Fuck Bill.