Based on that clip, I question whether Shatner’s show will find an audience, but did Limbaugh really start to argue that only those who can afford health care deserve it?

This is the show’s SECOND season, so “This Exists” a heck of a lot longer than you’re apparently aware. Tsk, tsk.

For the life of me I will understand how anybody could sit and listen to Limbaugh. He is a rotten, divisive, arrogant, narcissistic piece of crap whose done so much harm with his smears, lies and bullshit. I really hope that the end of the interview shows Shatner breaking Limbaugh’s nose is 17 places… I cannot hate anybody more than I hate Limbaugh.

@Magister: Yup, he sure did. Reminds me of my old TV station’s boss, who would expound at length that health insurance was just like car insurance, that you should simply pay more if you use it more. Because, you know, being a bad driver is just like getting breast cancer… there’s no difference there at all.

Yes, this is how he sees the health of his nation. As something you can either afford or you can’t. ignoring the fact that we’re # 37 in the world while spending twice as much as other countries who have much better results. Now that’s what I call American Exceptionalism!

rox steady says:

Where did that rating come from? The UN study that considers ‘some can get health care some cannot’ worse than ‘no one can get health care’?

Shatner asks Limbaugh a great question..”How do you know?” and of course Limbaugh’s response is basically, trust me on this. As you know by now, conservatives are incapable of humor; this is an accepted fact and as it turns out they are also incapable of logic and therefore you get people like Limbaugh, Beck and Palin. It’s in their DNA and there is nothing that can be done about it except to humor them….which they won’t understand.

Actually he didn’t say, ” Trust me,” he said, “That was his job its what he does everyday to make the Country Better.” Instead of attacking people why don’t you go read some facts and try to persuade people with that instead of your liberal hate routine. In case you don’t realize it people with money will always get better Health care than people without, even with national health care. If you want better health care work for it don’t expect the best out of Welfare. Although that government cheese is pretty darn good.

I think those who can afford it should get good health care.

Still, bring on the free health care. I’d take it.

Taz75115 Please learn to read before you flame someone. Ted didn’t say that Rush said “Trust Me”. Ted said “and of course Limbaugh’s response is basically, trust me on this”. Basically means that Ted was saying that Rush was inferring “trust me.. I’m the expert, not you”. Of course he’s the expert.. he could afford to buy 5000 oxycontin tablets to feed his habit.

Instead of attacking someone because they have actually read some of the facts and have a 180 degree viewpoint from you and your Insurance Company bought viewpoint (you didn’t happen to attend one of those teaparties did you?) why don’t you read up on the facts. We spend $7,290 per person on average versus $2,964 among all OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. Norway, the nation with the second most expensive health system on a per capita basis, spends $4,763. (Currency conversions based on purchasing power parity.) According to the OECD, the U.S. spends 5% of GDP more on health than France, the nation with the second highest level of health spending among the 30 wealthy countries in the organization. The average for all OECD countries is 8.9% of GDP.

Yes, people with more money will always get better health care. No one is denying this. But is it too much to ask for to not have to mortgage your home, and liquidate all your assets because you need a life saving surgery. Isn’t it wrong that insurance companies call Cesarean sections, spousal abuse, pregnancy “preexisting conditions” and refuse to cover millions of women? Isn’t it wrong that birth control methods are still not covered.

The CEO of United Healthcare retired 2 years ago…. $900,000,000.00 golden parachute… and yet they refuse to cover a women because several years ago, her boyfriend or husband smacked her and she called the police on him… preexisting condition.. she puts herself in dangerous positions.

I don’t think anyone is against health care reform, just some people don’t want a public option.

But really, free health care! C’mon! Let’s do it!

JazzDrummer7 says:
December 2, 2009 at 5:41 pm

Hate hate hate… yeah, we get it. Moving on.

Ted says:
December 2, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Ugh… Teddy… grow up, buddy. The act is getting tired.

ImNotBlue – You are precisely what I was referring to, Thank you for making my point. By the way, do you post just for the sake of posting or do you have anything intelligent to add? Despite what you “think”, this is not a rhetorical question.

Interesting show. Seems like I’ll end up watching it in the future.

Ted says:
December 3, 2009 at 6:32 am

4 out of 5 times Ted, I post with a legitimate comment of relevance and importance.

The 1 out of 5 post is to gently encourage folks (like you) to get a grip on your hatred, and start posting intelligently.

Now, back to you comment. Once again you demonstrate through your posts that you’re not interested in “discussion,” and more over, you’re not actually reading or paying attention to the specific thread. Rather, you’re just posting some bit of “I hate Republicans/Conservatives,” based upon your own crazy musings. This is not constructive. In fact, you’ve said as much to me… wasn’t it just the other day you were patting yourself on the back for “upsetting” me so much (disappointing me, yes… upsetting, hardly). Your stated purpose, if we can extrapolate that post, is to be annoying… which, to be perfectly honest, you do quite well. However, being that this is apparently your purpose, my initial response remains:

Grow up.

I am SO glad that there is a post about this because when I was watching it the other night my eyes were completely fixated on the television and I couldn’t pull myself away. It was remarkable to me to see Shatner grilling Limbaugh and the consequential banter. You have to wonder who the other guests the show has lined up are, or if they will be quite as riveting if they’re any less argumentative than the Limbaugh segment. Overall though, it’s refreshing to watch because it seems like Shatner and Limbaugh are equally ballsy and opinionated.

I am a conservative and I am not for the Public Option. Don’t get me wrong I think it would be great for everyone to have free health care. The problem is the lack of good free health care. I am not going on a waiting list if I get cancer in America now. If I lived in Canada and France I would be on a list and be dead in six months to a year.

there seems to be a problem with the communication of the public option. ITS NOT FREE!!!! it would be supported by the premiums paid into it by the customers that it has. everyone would not be able to enroll in the public option. however, if private companies don’t make the premiums lower, they will have triggers that would allow more people into the program. its not free. the reason the private companies don’t want the public option is they simply do not want to cut into their profits. I’m all for anyone making money. make as much as you can, but really, do they need to make up to 30c of every dollar?!? there was a time when they only made about 10c of every dollar and they were doing just fine. as it stands now, they make between 22-25c of every dollar. for being basically middle men. our health care as gotten worse and worse over the last 20 years and our premiums have more than doubled in the last 8!!!!! and i’m completely healthy, knock on wood!!!! I know I’m not the only one with that same story. those being told that the public option is going to ruin our country and economy have been sold a bunch of hogwash. the reality is it won’t hurt U one bit….. have a nice day, and God Bless….

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