(11 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Bill Kristol was Jon Stewart’s Daily Show Monday night guest. He also thinks that YOU don’t deserve healthcare equal to what the military receives.
Stewart skewers him.
RawStory: Bill Kristol admits govt.-run health care can be better than private
On Monday night’s show, Kristol worked to explain why he didn’t support a public health option, arguing in essence that the existence of Medicare and Medicaid provided health coverage to those most in need.
“So no public option, even though that’s good enough for the military – not good enough for the people of America?” Stewart asked.
“They do not deserve the same quality of health care the soldiers fighting deserve, and they [the soldiers] need all kinds of things we don’t need,” Kristol said.
“Are you saying that the American public shouldn’t have access to the same quality of health care that we give to our better citizens?” Stewart asked.
“To our soldiers? Yes, absolutely,” Kristol responded, to a chorus of boos from the audience.
An incredulous Stewart asked: “Really?”
Moments later, Kristol added that “one of the ways we make it up” to soldiers that they receive relatively low pay is by “giving them first class health care. The rest of us can go out and buy insurance.”
That’s when Stewart struck.
“Bill Kristol just said … that the government can run a first-class health care system and a government-run health care system is better than the private health care system.”
“You trapped me somehow,” a visibly uncomfortable Kristol responded.
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just makes you look idiotic, Bill. What can I say?
…he can’t see when his rightness contradicts his wrongness, so to speak.
He does more reporting and analysis
in 30 minutes,
than most of them do in 30 days!
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Bill Kristol makes the front page of Docudharma?
Thanks for the boost, ek! 😉
feet ever touch the ground?
health insurance, what about their sacrifice? I could go on, there would be countless examples to shoot this asshole down.