The “Last Week Tonight” host told the story of one family whose child had a brain tumor removed and was stuck with a $325,000 bill that was not covered by their HCSM.
“Holy shit,” Oliver said in disbelief, calling it “exactly the kind of immoral behavior I’d expect sharing ministries to classify as ‘fucking disqualifying.’”“It shows just how little recourse you have,” Oliver said. “If you don’t have a child that you can get onto TV to shame the company into action, you could be shit out of luck.”“I do get the appeal of lower-cost health insurance,” Oliver said. “The problem is, this isn’t that.
But some states, he said, were doing just the opposite. For example, Florida has lowered the bar so much that just about anyone can create an HCSM. Anyone, including Oliver himself. So, he resurrected his “church,”, which he created in 2015 to show how easy it was to use religion to exploit tax loopholes.
Now, that church has a spinoff called Our Lady of Perpetual Health, which offers an HCSM called JohnnyCare,Then, he brought back comedian Rachel Dratch as his mock televangelist wife to explain this totally bonkers and 100 percent legal scheme, now available to Florida residents with $1.99 to spare and a desire for three Band-Aids: