Sunday, February 9, 2025

John Oliver Lets Rip On America’s New Health Care Bill [Video]

During his Sunday show John decided to look a little closer at America and that hastily passed Health Care Bill. Guess what, he isn't a fan.
John Oliver in New York, March 31, 2014. Oliver, known for his appearances on "The Daily Show," debuts his own comedic news-commentary show, ?Last Week Tonight,? April 27, 2014 on HBO. (CHAD BATKA/The New York Times Syndicate/Redux) -- PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE - ONLINE OR IN PRINT - BEFORE APRIL 27, 2014.

Over in Yankee Land Donald and his mates are still smiling smugly to themselves, Republicans managing to push their new health care bill through the House in a hastily thrown together vote.

Why take your time, it’s not like it’s something that is going to affect hundreds of millions of Americans for generations to come?

217-213 was the margin, so it really was squeaky bum time for Trump,

Sunday saw John Oliver in fine form again, and he took a swipe at the GOP Health Care Bill:

Yeah, screw your pre-existing conditions.

Side note – guess what qualifies as a pre-existing condition, allowing insurers to raise the roof on those rates? TIME with this below:

  • AIDS/HIV
  • Alcohol or drug abuse with recent treatment
  • Alzheimer’s/dementia
  • Anorexia
  • Arthritis
  • Bulimia
  • Cancer
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Coronary artery/heart disease, bypass surgery
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Diabetes
  • Epilepsy
  • Hemophilia
  • Hepatitis
  • Kidney disease, renal failure
  • Lupus
  • Mental disorders (including Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia)
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Obesity
  • Organ transplant
  • Paraplegia
  • Paralysis
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Pending surgery or hospitalization
  • Pneumocystic pneumonia
  • Pregnancy or expectant parent (includes men)
  • Sleep apnea
  • Stroke
  • Transsexualism

Sorry folks, you’re on your own.

That’s not all. Experts have also noted that insurers can drastically hike premiums on conditions like C-Sections, hysterectomies, postpartum depression and “sexual deviation or disorder”.

TIME again:

A recent report from the Center [sic] for American Progress found that insurers could charge people with metastatic cancer as much as $142,650 more for their coverage, a 3,500% increase.

That’s where that cookie analogy in the video comes from, and you can bet health insurers will squeeze every last drop out of their clients.

Pregnant? Cancer? AIDS? F*ck you, it doesn’t matter to these guys – this picture from Trump’s post-Bill passing celebratory speech:

[sources:dailybeast&time]