Fox News' Shep Smith: "Every vote against the public option is a vote for the insurance companies"

It seems that Shep Smith is too good for Fox News.

Why did you guys cut it off? Seems like you guys tend to cut it off prematurely

Shep's hate mail is going to crash the server.

This senator uses every single excuse in the GOP book to run around the questions without addressing what shep is asking.

Shep Smith will never be allowed back in Oxford, Mississippi. Forget about ever seeing Ole Miss again, Shep. ;>)

Shep Smith is the odd man out, on Fox News.
I have been recently watching his show because my alternative is Dobbs and he (Smith) actually manages his show pretty well and does not inject talking points as his own.
Keeps it in the realm of a news show.
Shep and Campbell Brown are the ones doing a good job so far in the 7 PM to 9 PM that I watch TV.

We will know within an hour of the bill becoming legislation if its decent or not. If insurance companies and drug companies support the whole bill, it is terrible! if they are going out of there way to destroy it, it is great! If stock prices for insurance companies go up that day, our political system has completely failed to function - when we have not even a democratic majority but 60 of them in the senate, a majority in the house and a supposedly liberal president and we still can't pass real reform, washington has went down the toilet. It really will be a travesty if we can't actually change the status quo when almost all of America is supporting this. Time for a new party is what i will say!

I think he did a decent job with this interview and made some very good and valid points that hopefully got through to some people.

However, the Fox viewers are probably confused right now. They're probably saying, "I thought that this whole health care reform thing meant death panels and socialism, not protection from the health insurance industry".

In the end, it's good to see someone have a rational thought on Fox News.

Shep is growing some tentacles recently.I like it! Good to see FOX has an hour slot that is not all Anti-Obama or anti-liberal. I tend to have conservative views, but I am probably one of few that clearly see the FOX far -right slant.

How did this ever get on Fox? The weak design of the public option will ultimately benefit the insurance companies. Every significant cost saving mechanism has been stripped out of the public option. When the public option fails, it will take down with it single payer (the real solution) as a viable alternative.

I predict Shepard Smith is going to lose his job and Lou Dobbs is going to replace him. Fox News will not tolerate this blatant honesty being broadcast on its dime.

Actually, what I think what's ultimately going to happen is this:

The republicans are going to start thinking that the public option was their idea, and that a Democrat (the Baucuss bill) was trying to force them all to be slaves to the insurance companies, and that if they didn't pay, they would go to jail.

I personally think a lot of Republicans are actually pretty decent folks - they just get nervous when there is change. Especially when they don't understand all of it. Now that there has been some time, they are starting to realize "hey, that public option may not be such a bad thing, look at the alternative.."

Anyway - the Republicans will start thinking that it's their idea. I know that's what I do when trying to sell an idea to someone - make them think it's their idea. And they will start demanding for it. And it will get in.

And if they claim it - fine. I don't care which side gets it in there, just that it gets in there. And that my current insurance doesn't get touched.

I see absolutely no problem with a public option. The "postal service" option. You can have private (Fed Ex) or public (Postal Service).

Dam, me jaw is on the floor!