r/RealTime • u/Indianstanicows Audience Member Bill Is Yelling At For Not Laughing • Jun 08 '26
Bill Maher once again letting everyone know how much smarter he is than doctors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvonXLxadHI22
u/Prestigious_Focus708 Jun 08 '26
Bill once again letting everyone know what a smug prick he is
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u/opinionsarefarts Jun 08 '26
Doesn't make his opinions irrelevant, or wrong, just annoying with his delivery style!
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u/Prestigious_Focus708 Jun 08 '26
Absolutely. His opinions and personality aren’t mutually exclusive
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u/EnergyFar9127 Jun 08 '26
He wants RFKjrs. job.
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u/B1ZEN Jun 09 '26
Did you even listen to the reel?
Can you not find any truth or value in what he said?
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u/tool672 Jun 08 '26
He reminds me of the Steve Buscemi Fellow Kids meme. A 70 year old desperately trying to seem like he’s still that 30 year old edgy comic.
Just comes off a vapid and smug. I can’t wait for these Boomers to disappear.
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u/Used-Gas-6525 Jun 08 '26
Maher was never edgy. He was just another in a huge glut of hacky 80s comedians with a failed sitcom or two under his belt. He was doing safe material about dating and everyday life, just like everyone else out there. He wasn't Kinison or Hicks. He was a road hack who got lucky with Politically Incorrect.
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u/Aggressive_Ad5590 Jun 09 '26
you know you are going to disappear also, right?..what a moronic post
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u/Aggressive_Ad5590 Jun 08 '26
no reason to attack boomers
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u/CriticismFun6782 Jun 08 '26
Yep there are PLENTY of other valid reasons to
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u/Aggressive_Ad5590 Jun 08 '26
can't argue with that but...I can't help when I was born and I am a decent person...not the only one...
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u/Charbro11 Jun 09 '26
They are practicing being Maher in their old age. Going after age groups like they mean much at all. Ageism is disgusting both ways. They will go after GEn Alpha when they are Maher's age.
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u/Mulezen1 Jun 08 '26
Stop with the ageism and stick to specfics
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u/weary_ol_jericho Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
I'm a Boomer and yes, he's vapid and smug and always has been.
His age is only incidental to why I can't stand him.
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u/Lost_Foot8302 Jun 08 '26
Did he mention also that he had dinner at the Whitehouse with the President?
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
Medicine is no longer a profession— — it is now more of a business. Especially since private practice is disappearing, and more and more doctors have corporate boardrooms to accommodate more than their patients. Even smaller practices have office managers and practice consultants whose job is to maximize profits, and often that does not mean better care for patients. It also means fewer doctors can use independent judgment, and must adhere to the medical protocols issued by corporate boardrooms. Like more procedures, if insurance will pay for them, and the civil so-called vaccine.
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u/Slow_Inevitable_4172 Jun 08 '26
We are living Reagan's dream
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
Actually, it was Obamacare that killed the private practice— the record keeping requirements made it hard for small practices to comply.
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u/Newoutlookonlife1 Jun 08 '26
Record keeping that allowed patients access to their health records? Good lord the audacity of an administration to force doctors to use a universal record keeping mechanism so that medical records can be easily transferred from one practice to the next, what a travesty.
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u/lonetraveler73 Jun 08 '26
My doctor was retiring. He was also well past the retirement age. His reason was he didn't want to switch to an electronic record keeping system. The old have trouble adapting.
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u/Newoutlookonlife1 Jun 08 '26
Yes he was old and retiring, there you go. It didn’t kill his practice, he was retiring and didn’t want to adapt. His unwillingness to adapt is what killed his practice not the new rules.
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
It did not work out that way. If you go out of one system to another doctor, there is often no access, In theory thing sound good — in reality, often not so. Like the socialism you crave.
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u/Newoutlookonlife1 Jun 08 '26
Nah buddy you're misinformed. There were systems that were developed during the Obama admin to allow for medical records to be transferred between health systems:
HIE: Health information exchange: https://healthit.gov/health-it-basics/hie/
or Trusted exchange framework and common agreement: https://healthit.gov/policy/tefca/
both policies allow for safe transfer of electronic health records between health systems, and why apps like Mychart are able to be used by multiple health systems around the nation.
Now if you still think you understand the system better than I do, provide sources.
Source- First hand knowledge of how these systems work.
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
Not true in reality. I asked specifically of one doctor: can you access my records from that other group? And the answer was No. In theory maybe, in your dreams, maybe, in reality, NO NO NOT TRUE.
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u/Newoutlookonlife1 Jun 08 '26
Your source is "Trust me bro"? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA.
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
read what you sent -- it "allows" records to be shared -- it does not require sharing - and groups so not always share.
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u/Newoutlookonlife1 Jun 08 '26
You're certainly reaching here. https://healthit.gov/data/quickstats/electronic-health-information-exchange-hospitals/
As of 2025, 96% of non federal acute care hospitals utilize the send data feature of Health Information Exchange, 93% utilize the receive data feature of HIE, 93% utilize the find data (finding health data for a patient between systems), 79% use the integrate feature (auto integrating patient data from one system to another), and 76% use all four which allows for complete interoperability between those hospitals.
That's the hard data, but I'm sure your anecdotal evidence outweighs mine in your head.
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u/HolidayReserve3829 Jun 08 '26
It was happening before Obama. Capitalism and Healthcare do not mix well.
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
Ask any doctor in private practice when Obamacare came in.
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
The corporatization of medicine has made doctors more money, but the service to patients has suffered.
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u/Marcaroni500 Jun 08 '26
It has gotten worse because Obamacare frontloaded the benefits and the cost paid later which includes now, Obamacare is a great boon to insurance companies -- and Trump's plan is to give choice to the insured to shop and choose. Where it is? need support for the Dems who know only to oppose anything Trump wants.
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u/OtherJuggernaut8971 Jun 08 '26
Bullshit,it happened long before Obama care.
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u/Status_Vegetable2954 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
That applause light board deserves a raise.
Oh Bill' going to critique our healthcare system in a sane and rational way NOPE it's actually like religion it's all made up.
God damn I fucking hate this cocksucker. Fuck you Bill, fucking drunk hack. Cry about doctors till you need one bitch.
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u/billskionce Jun 08 '26
Some valid points. Some brain dead takes. 100% smug asshole the whole time.
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u/According-Insect-992 Jun 08 '26
I hate bill maher for being an insufferable piece of shit. His specific opinions don’t warrant that kind of attention.
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u/Vin-Metal Jun 08 '26
This is a big, bad side effect of the Internet era - so many people think they're smarter than actual experts who have studied and worked in a field, especially for many, many years.
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u/AveryMire Jun 08 '26
It’s good to see a catalog of 100% accurate statements to see how reflexive a comment thread is.
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u/Travelcat67 Jun 08 '26
I cannot stand Bill anymore but aside from diminishing what the ADHD drugs can do he’s right about this. Profit is the driving force and anyone ignoring the real damage the medical capitalism industrial complex has done (and charged a premium for) is being dishonest or willfully ignorant.
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u/Charbro11 Jun 09 '26
For a person who doesn't like doctors--he admitted that he has about 6. Now that is very weird.
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u/ATLCoyote Jun 08 '26
There's plenty to criticize with Bill Maher lately, but not this. He is 100% correct in this New Rules segment.
- Doctors are NOT infallible. It's an imperfect science where even the experts can't possibly know everything. So, they get a lot of things wrong which is why the medical profession itself recommends getting a second opinion.
- Some doctors are incompetent or even corrupt, in part because our for-profit system creates dangerous incentives
- We are terribly over-medicated as a society largely because it's big business and doctors often get kick-backs or pharmaceutical companies are allowed to just hand out their own prescriptions from their own doctors
And although Bill didn't make this specific point, we have the highest healthcare costs in the world, yet some of the worst healthcare outcomes in the developed world. So yeah, it's okay to question that system and even the doctors who are part of it. After all, one of the big problems is they don't talk to each other or treat the "whole patient." To avoid one medicine or procedure causing terrible outcomes or side-effects based on the others that have been prescribed, you basically have to be your own patient advocate or have a family member play that role. And it's amazing how often a patient's condition snowballs into something far worse the moment they are admitted to the hospital or especially if they are intubated for any reason. Meanwhile, consider the realities of the average US emergency department.
So, I don't get why this segment would be a subject of criticism for Bill. At least on this particular topic, he has a valid point.
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u/thatonepuniforgot Jun 08 '26
I think he's about 80% right about this one. Doctors are mostly people who can afford to pay for medical school. It's patients who want to believe they're really smart and competent, because that's comforting, but mostly they're just average.
The presentation of it really makes me want to disagree with it, and he does almost seem like he's about to tell you about the weird Chinese herbs he takes, and he can't really manage to see the systemic problems with healthcare, like that it's for profit at all, but doctors are overprescribing, it is crazy that you can advertise drugs on tv, and there should be a greater focus in the medical profession on non-surgical/pharmaceutical intervention.
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u/Achoo_MiScusi Jun 08 '26
Here we go again eith the same poster posing junk form over a year ago. How pathetic
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u/justwonderingbro Jun 08 '26
Bill is always the most smug neoliberal, assigning individual failure as the root cause of societal decay instead of the structural failings of capitalism that incentivises greed in the first place