Friday, September 18, 2009

Bill O'Reilly Backs Public Option





Now, I didn't see the entire segment, so correct me if I am wrong, but I just read in the Huffington Post that Bill O'Reilly supports the public option. This caught me off guard quite a bit. In previous posts I stated that until the Republican Party and its talking pundits comes off the far fetched notions they have been promoting the Republican party will continue to lose credibility. Is this the beginning of the move towards the middle from the Republican Party?

Transcript:

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.







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