Quotes and Comments: Adam Fox on Bill O’Reilly

“I want, not for me personally, 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.”

— Bill O’Reilly, on his show last week while discussing health care reform.

I had to watch the video clip of O’Reilly saying this about 3 or 4 times before I actually believed it. O’Reilly for a public health care option?

It seems that way from this comment, although I’m sure he would say he didn’t intend for it come off that way. Either way, he gets at the fundamental point of the health care reform debate that is being hotly contested right now — its about getting health insurance at an affordable rate for everyone in this country.

If it takes a public option to get there, then that’s what needs to happen. If it takes co-ops and personal mandates, then they need to be part of the final plan too. If not, fine, but the final bill has to be effective.

It cannot be a water-downed bill that tries to make too many special interest groups happy (republicans and democrats included), because in the end the people that it should make the happiest are the millions of Americans that cannot afford health insurance, are getting dropped from their insurers, are being denied insurance for pre-existing conditions, or are seeing their premiums sky rocket (and frankly, that’s almost all of us).

—Adam Fox, a copy editor and graduate student in Psychology, can be reached at adam.e.fox@wmich.edu.

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