Bombastic Fox News host Bill O’Reilly made a rather notable policy pronouncement on Wednesday’s show: he supports the creation of a government-managed health care plan if it provides working Americans with an affordable option to other private insurance plans. In other words, he supports the public option now being hotly debated in Congress.

“I want, not for personally for me, but for working Americans, to have a option, that if they don’t like their health insurance, if it’s too expensive, they can’t afford it, if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that as a plus for the folks.”

If the economically-ignorant Bill O’Reilly really wants to understand how to help “working Americans,” perhaps he should read End the Fed.

[Thanks to Travis Holte]