HBO’s John Oliver is not content to only import his bad jokes from his native Britain; he also wants to import its disastrous healthcare system as well. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver devoted most of the show to a crusade against Medicare Advantage, which he alleged could be fixed by instituting a single-payer healthcare system.
After a clip of former Sen. Orrin Hatch claiming private industry does things better than the government, Oliver went on a weird digression about slippers:
Yeah, the whole argument was this would expand choice, and companies would do a better job at controlling costs than the government. And look, some things are better when the private sector's involved. Take novelty slippers. Only through competition in the free market do you get innovations like hairy feet slippers, creepy Marge Simpson slippers, Sigmund Freud slippers, ‘Danny DeFeeto’ slippers, and golden penis slippers. And if you're wondering, who the fuck would buy those? You are looking at him right here. Now, why did I buy them? I don't know, probably because of something deep-rooted in my psyche stemming from childhood, at least according to my Sigmund Freud slipper right here.
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