Bill O'Reilly Backs Public Option "If it Provides Working Americans With an Affordable Option to Other Private Insurance Plans"

Call the paramedics! Bill O'Reilly backs public option "if it provides working Americans with an affordable option to other private insurance plans." Whoa. That's a bold declaration for anyone coming from Faux News. As noted by DailyKos' Jed Lewison, O'Reilly had the following exchange with the Heritage Foundation's Nina Owcharenko:

O’REILLY: The public option now is done. We discussed this, it’s not going to happen. But you say that this little marketplace that they’re going to set up, whereby the federal government would subsidize insurance for some Americans, that is, in your opinion, a public option?

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. 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. Source: DailyKos

Well, this is indeed a first. Seriously folks, is Mr. O'Reilly ailing? This certainly isn't typical for anyone at Fox News to agree with President Obama, except Geraldo Rivera, of course.