[url]http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/17/oreilly-public-option/[/url]
click link to watch the vid of him saying so
[B][URL="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/17/oreilly-public-option/"]O’Reilly endorses the public option, which he previously called ‘socialism.’ [/URL][/B]
Last night on Fox News, Bill O’Reilly actually told a Heritage Foundation scholar who was fear-mongering government-backed health care that he [URL="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/17/783109/-OReilly-backs-government-health-insurance-option"]favors a public option[/URL]:
[INDENT]NINA 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.[B] 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.[/B] [/INDENT] Watch it: As recently as last month, O’Reilly was still saying that progressives want “the government to run the nation’s health care system. That’s because the Feds can then redistribute income much easier, shifting resources to the poor and away from corporations and the affluent. … It’s not really about health care. [URL="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908170040"]It’s about socialism[/URL].”