r/lastweektonight • u/Walter_Bishop_PhD Bugler • Sep 21 '26

Episode Discussion [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver] S13E23 - September 20, 2026 - Episode Discussion Thread

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u/SubmissiveDinosaur Sep 21 '26

Man, they needed to extend that bit of people stacking things on John two minutes

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u/HardcoreKaraoke Sep 21 '26

Also his staff should have been in Moon Mammoths jerseys.

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u/BriGuy1965 Sep 21 '26

I was diagnosed with cancer in 1983 and despite getting a college degree, I was unemployable because no one could offer me health insurance as a benefit because everyone's cost would rise. I have been an advocate of a one-payer system for about 40 years now and think that profit is made for keeping people alive makes the United States the official loser of health care.

Fuck any for-profit organization that deals with billions of dollars that is not going to healthcare providers.

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u/SuperWolfe9099 Sep 21 '26

Dayumn! I should be paying attention to Women's Softball more often...

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u/nonsensestuff Sep 21 '26

When you see just how much money UnitedHealth makes, amongst some of the most giant and profitable retail and tech companies around, it really makes it feel like universal healthcare is impossible. šŸ˜•

I just think about the fact that here in Oregon, they didnā€™t fully get rid of the requirement for gas stations to have attendants even when they made self-service legal. All because of concerns over ā€œlosing jobsā€.

So take that and multiply it by hundreds of thousands of jobs that private insurance companies currently are responsible for šŸ˜£ suddenly these companies are too valuable to the workforce and economy to break up

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u/ArchdruidHalsin Sep 21 '26

For a hot second when John went off about algorithms I thought he was about to take a shot at Bill Maher always being recommended after him.

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 Sep 23 '26

Ha, I did too. Every time I see Real Time recommended after this, I'm like, "HBO thinks I'm an idiot."

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u/Kevin-W Sep 21 '26

Main story is UnitedHealthCare

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u/zuckerpunch_c1137 Sep 21 '26

Main story: UnitedHealthcare and the Luigi Mangionie trial

Other topics covered: Ted Cruz's guest appearance on ESPN's College Football preshow, Kash Patel and his lifting the non-beastiality requirements for perspective recruits

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u/SwordLaker Sep 21 '26

I went in and expected "Luigi did nothing wrong".

By the end, I ended up with "Holy shit this world needs a shit lot many more Luigis to fix this atrocity".