O'Reilly agrees with McCain: Viagra over birth control

[mrplow8]

Are insurance companies legally required to cover viagra?

[Maxxsgirl]

if pregnancy isn't a medical condition, then why do women go to the doctor for it?

[wowza802]

"Do I have to buy you dinner before you use the little blue pill?" Apparently, he's not as worried about that.

[SabreKitteh]

"Do I have to buy you dinner before you use the birth control?"

Prime example of how out-of-touch he is with anyone who isn't a rich old white dude.

[razzlefrog]

RIGHT. Because every guy's always asking for Viagra for "alternative medical conditions", innocently not even aware it has any sexual side-effects.

[Yistherewar]

Men shouldn't even have a say in women's birth control, unless it's "they should do what they see fit".

Fucking misogynists.

[richyncali]

Both Viagra and birth control should NOT be cover.

Why pay for a boner &/or a promiscuous life style.

Let me pay for your sexual pleasures?...nah, I rather pay for mine. ; p hehe

[shocktreatmentt]

@richyncali You're obviously an idiot. Do you believe that women in committed relationships would never need birth control. The fact of the matter is birth control is not just for women with promiscuous lifestyles. It's for all women who don't wish to become pregnant. That can be anyone from a woman who has been married 30 years, had all of her children and has not yet reached menopause, to a teenage girl preparing for her first sexual experience. Educate yourself :)

[Trund27]

@shocktreatmentt Thank goodness for smart people like you :)

[fushiafleur]

if you want an erection bad enough to pay for a pill that gets it up for you, hey that's your choice!

if you want a life that is livable bad enough to pay for a pill that insures you can have control over your life, then that's a choice too. But it's a chioce that women make everyday to keep their life under control, and that's almost as important as having a life! if anything should be covered based on choice, it should be this:

the choice to produce a child or not

[videoguy604]

Conservatives are so smart, one 25 cent pill can keep the government from paying out over $100,000 in taxpayer dollars in welfare over the life of an unwanted child who will most likely repeat the cycle and they attack funding birth control. If they had any brains they'd be showering them down on the streets like confetti in a ticker tape parade.

[DameDiabolique]

Isn't paying for Bill O Rielly's Boners Socialism??? I mean damn. It's Welfare for Hard Dicks for Old men like John McCain and Bill O Rielly... I mean come on!!!! If you have ED, stop relying on the Government to supply your boner. Shit... and let women who actually want to prevent pregnancy and help with Irregular Bleeding a break and the right to have access to their medicine...Sheesh!

[DameDiabolique]

#1, Bill O Rielly, she wasn't talking about the Federal Government, she was talking about Private Health Insurance. Where people have to pay out of the ass every month.

#2, I am a young woman and I have health insurance, If I am paying the fucking bill every month, don't you think it is stupid that it wouldn't cover my birth control, yet it will cover for old men to get hard dicks?

[jay19456]

fuck bill o reilly fuckin racist

[tigsie17]

OMG...do people not get that birth control helps regulate menstrual cycles!?!?! It's not just for preventing pregnancy! Some men are just plain fucking stupid....*bangs head on desk*

[richyncali]

Bang harder please. ; )

[Trund27]

@tigsie17 Ouch! Careful, there! We need people like you with your bright brain to keep us on our toes :)

[Englishdosser86]

O'Reilly is a very large penis. If he took a viagra pill, his head would swell up and he'd get a nose bleed.

On the other hand, I respect McCain's answer. Politicians should learn to say 'I don't know' more often. It is much better than making something up.

[selkie319]

What is all this crap about everybody else having to pay for my meds??? I pay my own health insurance and they still don't pay for birth control. I didn't know that Viagara was a life-saving drug. Thank God O'Reilly is here to inform us all on just what is important here.............What an ass!

[mycolebee]

Medical Condition? So you can fuck?

[Kimipu]

What an idiot! He's saying bc pills aren't for a medical condition?! Way to show that you know nothing about them, bill.

Glad to know he thinks my health is trivial and medication to help me shouldn't be covered *eye roll*. I don't think I could hate this pig any more than I already do.

[mmband]

great point

[kakahass]

they both shouldn't be covered- insurance companies should do whatever they want

[erok2020]

O'Reilly is a moron.. what an idiot...!

[phishphan17]

I FUCKING HATE O'REILLY!!!!!!!!

Choosing to have sex if you're an old son of a bitch and can't get it up is a choice too you fucking moron!!!

I don't want to pay for Bills dick to get hard so he can fuck off,

[heatherleila3]

Why do WE have to pay for your VIAGRA Bill? Que pendejon! And stupid, he doesn't even know what he's saying!

[gabriel2099]

"que pendejon!"

LMFAO! exactly the thought that should be going through the head of any intelligent human being, except on different languages. :P

[VintageYellow85]

What a jerk!!!! So no birth control, no abortions...... O'reily and McCain believe it is more for them to get it up than for a mother of 8 to not have more children she can't afford.....Is it just me or is this backwards?

[lauriesore]

Clearly, Billo can't get it up! So should we really have to pay for his inability to perform?

[judychadwick]

He is defensive because he needs to use it. So we are paying for his pleasures. How is an erection necessary for health? There are other ways to have a good time.

[MarissaAdams]

Because I was born with the genetic bleeding disorder Von Willebrands Syndrome, I've had to take various forms birth control since I began menstrating at thirteen. Aside from contraceptives, the only other option women like me have is to bleed for weeks on end and receive regular transfusions to prevent our bleeding to death. Does the use of such medication in this circumstance sound like a matter of choice to anyone?

[DameDiabolique]

Sorry about posting on such an old comment but my younger sister was born with the same syndrome. So when clowns like Bill O Rielly make dumbass arguments like this, I have to think of my little sister and then smack my computer screen. Some people are just so pathetic in this world...

[BaddieAss]

Yeah I agree. Sorry to hear about your sis. Bill'O is pathetic and is definitely going to hell when he dies =D

[Touka87]

So O'Reilly's logic is: Women don't deserve having birth control covered by insurance, because they can just CHOOSE not to have sex.

...but wait, can't men with ED just CHOOSE the same thing? To not have sex?

He also pretends that 'the taxpayers' would be 'paying' for it. Yes, we would, but it would save us taxpayers more money in the long run by preventing unwanted pregnancies in poor communities, support programs for which cost taxpayers FAR more than providing birth control would.

[cupcake2191]

What about birth control used to treat premenstrual syndromes or premenstrual dysphoric disorder?

Birth control is commonly used not just to prevent pregnancy- it is used to relieve extremely painful menstrual cramps, abdominal bloating, head and back aches, mood swings, anxiety, depression, tension, skin issues, etc.

So, Bill, is that a medical condition or do we choose to experience the wonderful side effects of our inner uterus lining shedding?

[3236441562]

having sex is a "choice". having/not having a child is a "choice". for insurance companies to pay for one "choice" and not the "other" is clearly discriminatory. this may be another example of how the religious right (the catholic church in this example) has undue influence and control on our society. o'reilly's argument is poor

[kublakhan1816]

So Bill won't buy your birth control, but he'll buy you a Falafel.

[OrangeTaylor]

You're a dick O'Reilly.

So does that mean that the government will start helping pay for my tampons and pads, since I didn't ASK to get a period and have to pay 10 dollars a box, just like O'Reilly didn't ask to get ED. Women actually NEED pads, contrary to old men who get viagra to have a bit of fun. Not saying that viagra doesn't legitimately help a lot people, of course.

[deanrdd]

Helps them get a boner. Bill, do you WANT to pay for other guy's boners? FOFLOL!!!!

[Gomer21XX]

If you happen to be reading this, Mr. Bill O'Reilly, I would just like to inform you that you can go fuck yourself with your own penis.

Let me put it like this... if birth control is a "choice", as you put it, then so the fuck is Viagra and every other pill out there that can make an old man pop a damn woody long after he's supposed to not do so anymore.

[ideoplastic]

Of course it treats medical conditions, anything from acne to polycystic ovary syndrome (which can increase a woman's risk of diabetes and heart disease). Insurance companies to not distinguish between birth control pills as contraceptive and medicine. Planned Parenthood should have mentioned that in their ad.

[ideoplastic]

"do not", excuse me.

[genet13]

synthetic estrogen causes birth defects & cancer

[spinxenator]

OH HELL NO.

What about us chicks who, without contraceptive pills, would have to deal with embarassing & otherwise unavoidable situation of "Sorry, I can't come to work today, because my cramps are making me throw up." No one wants to deal with that shit on a monthly rotation, not yourself nor your employer.

STFD, O'Reilly.

[sterlingsir]

Well despite being a 'liberal', i agree. Liberals should agree with this. Its the very essence of leading a LIBERAL life, insisting that respect and freedom be given to oneself, Its lierals who believe in a free USA

[genet13]

nope. from a purely economic viewpoint, it costs less to prevent pregnancy than to maintain a mistake. this is why catholic missionaries are pro-birth control in third world nations now.

[MarysMyMom]

birth control still aborts the baby after conception.

[genet13]

nope. it prevents fertilization and/or implementation depending on the bc method. most pills just thicken the uterine lining, that's also how they control when you get your period.

do you consider your menses to be an abortion? with your arguement it's the same thing. every cycle is a wasted egg and pre-aborted baby. but it's obviously not if you look at the medical facts.

[genet13]

only if you take a controlled, deliberate overdose of birth control pills after conception will it result in miscarriage. the RU-486 abortion pill is exactly that. REGULAR BIRTH CONTROL PILLS will not affect the early stages of pregnancy if taken when the woman is already pregnant, though it is unhealthy until discovered. of course.

[busygirl12345]

not true. please educate yourself before you discuss something you obviously know nothing about.

[busygirl12345]

sorry, that was in response to MarysMyMom below. The pill is used to treat a variety of medical conditions from polycystic ovary disease to preventing ovulation in women who are at high risk for ovarian cancer. I'm gonna say a doctor (someone who knows something about medicine, unlike O'Reilly) would call those medical conditions.

[videoguy604]

Who cares?

[ruoyemanresu2]

hey bill

do i have to buy you dinner before you use viagara?

hypocrite