{"id":265421,"date":"2025-11-01T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265421\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:15:10","slug":"bill-maher-clashes-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-obamacare-during-fiery-real-time-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265421\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Clashes With Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Obamacare During Fiery \u2018Real Time\u2019 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Maher<\/a> didn\u2019t hold back when Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> made her debut on Real Time With Bill Maher<\/a> Friday night. The Georgia congresswoman, 51, joined Maher and journalist Michael Moynihan to hash out the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare<\/a> \u2014 a debate that couldn\u2019t have been timelier amid the ongoing government shutdown and expiring COVID<\/a>-era healthcare subsidies.<\/p>\n

With ACA premiums set to climb on November 1, Greene and Moynihan argued that Obamacare had directly fueled rising private health insurance costs and called for greater price transparency across the healthcare industry. But Maher wasn\u2019t having it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do know this: A lot of people had no health insurance, and then they got something that was relatively affordable called Obamacare. And the Republicans never stopped trying to kill it,\u201d Maher said, adding, \u201cAnd they kept kicking out different legs of this apparatus. And yet, it\u2019s still popular and still works.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to mock the GOP\u2019s longtime promise of a superior replacement for Obamacare, quoting Senate Majority Leader John Thune. \u201c\u2018The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable.\u2019 Yeah, and I\u2019d like to be able to dunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher doubled down: \u201cYou act like it\u2019s Big Foot, \u2018We\u2019re gonna find it.\u2019 You\u2019re not gonna find it. This is it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greene pushed back, saying, \u201cI disagree. I tell you. When you make the American taxpayer foot the bill for so many other people, it\u2019s completely wrong. And that\u2019s what\u2019s been happening for years now.\u201d<\/p>\n

She reiterated GOP frustrations over covering \u201cillegal aliens\u2019 health insurance\u201d and decried lobbying influence in D.C. as a blockade to real healthcare solutions.<\/p>\n

Greene added, \u201cI truly believe that we need to do a better job, and I wish that [Speaker of the House] Mike Johnson would call us back into session so we could actually do our jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exchange marked a fiery first appearance for Greene on Maher\u2019s HBO<\/a> stage \u2014 and a reminder that, nearly 15 years later, the fight over Obamacare is still very much alive.<\/p>\n

You can watch a clip above of Maher and MTG discussing Obamacare during a panel discussion with Moynihan, and stream the full episode, including the aforementioned interview, on HBO Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Real Time With Bill Maher airs Fridays at 10\/9c on HBO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Maher didn\u2019t hold back when Marjorie Taylor Greene made her debut on Real Time With Bill Maher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[10161,12,88,1035,13726,13409,30036,111,38975,31445,92],"class_list":["post-265421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bill-maher","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-late-night","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-obamacare","tag-politics","tag-talk-show","tag-talk-shows","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}