Jul 29 2009
William Kristol on The Daily Show
So William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and frequent Fox News contributor made an appearance yesterday on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to talk about healthcare. You’ll be shocked when you hear what the “godfather of neoconservatism” had to say.
STEWART: So you believe in no public option, so even though that’s good enough for the military, not good enough for the people of America.
KRISTOL: Well, the military has a different health system than the rest of Americans.
STEWART: It’s a public system, no?
KRISTOL: Yeah, they don’t have an option, they’re all in military health care.
STEWART: Why don’t we go with that?
KRISTOL: I don’t know. Is military health care really what you — first of all, it’s expensive. I think they deserve it, the military–
STEWART: But the American public do not.
KRISTOL: No. The American public do not deserve the same quality health care as our soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan deserve, and they need all kinds of things that the rest of us don’t need.
STEWART: Well, no, they can have that level of care, but are you saying that the American public shouldn’t have access to the same quality health care that we give to our better citizens?
KRISTOL: Yes. To our soldiers? Absolutely. The American public–
STEWART: Really?
KRISTOL: I think that if you become a soldier, you deserve–
[crosstalk]
KRISTOL: One of the ways we make it up to the soldiers, since they’re risking their lives, we give them first-class health care. The rest of us can go out and buy insurance–
Okay let’s take a break to analyze here. Think for a second about what Kristol is saying. He’s talking about the strength and quality of our military healthcare, which is run by the government. In other words he’s pretty much admitting that the government can provide first-class health care.
STEWART: Get this on the record. Bill Kristol 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.
KRISTOL: I don’t know if it’s better.
STEWART: You just said that.
KRISTOL: I don’t know if it’s better.
STEWART: You said it was better! You said it’s the best. It’s a little more expensive…
KRISTOL: The military needs different kinds of health care…
STEWART: I just want to get this down: “The government runs the best health care.”
Crafty wording by Jon Stewart to back William Kristol into the corner that he did, but it brings up a pretty good point. If the government can run quality care for our military then why would they not be able to do it for the public?
This got me thinking a bit and guess who else receives government run health care? Our congress. So government run health care is good enough for them but not us, and then half of the congress has the balls to turn around and claim it won’t work.
Our government does have a tendency to royally screw things up sometimes, and it can often be a costly mistake. However, this does not mean that something funded by the government is automatically going to fail. Look no further than our government funded firefighters. What a bunch of commies, right? No wonder their trucks are red.
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