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Jay Leno: We've had death panels for years; they're called insurance companies
Staff Reporter | Posted September 28, 2009 11:11 PMTalk show host Jay Leno is staking out a position on the health care debate, telling fellow talk show host Bill Maher Monday night that insurance companies are like death panels.
On Monday night's Jay Leno Show on NBC, Leno hosted HBO talk show host Bill Maher for a discussion about politics. After Maher read his "new rules" written specially for the Leno show, Leno asked him about health care.Maher criticized former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for promoting the argument that Obama's health care plan would lead to "death panels" that would ration health care. "You know what Sarah Palin, I got news for you honey. If we were going to get rid of useless people, you would be the first to know," Maher said to applause and laughter from the audience.
Leno replied: "We have had death panels for years. They're called insurance companies." According to Leno, "Everybody knows someone who was told your grandmother is not going to get this kidney because it's too expensive, or you're not in this plan, so I know the death panels is a phony, it's just wordplay. But people act like this hasn't existed," he said.
"Insurance companies have been turning down people for years and years," Leno continued.
Maher said he appreciated hearing that message from Leno, who he called "the exemplar of middle America." And he added, "A lot of people are fighting health care who need health care." Maher said that anyone who voted for someone who is not going to give them health care instead of somebody who is going to give them health care should have their head examined, except they wouldn't be able to get insurance to do it.

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