On the Fusion show No, You Shut Up! (which is in point of fact the subtext of every different cable information express), comic Paul F. Tompkins and a panel of puppets sort out a very powerful problems with the day. And the controversy they had about Obamacare may well be the smartest and most notion-provoking thus far, especially making an allowance for the participants involved included a sentient hot dog and an alien from a planet far, some distance away.

The panel contains all the traditional trope characters of cable information debates: an actor who knows just sufficient about a political difficulty to have a semi-coherent opinion on it, a snobby columnist who is aware of better than everyone, your same old political activist, and, of course, the cranky old senator who doesn’t keep in mind all this newfangled know-how and what actually constitutes a “gotcha” question.

But even with panelists going off on bizarre tangents like BuzzFeed and the circus, in addition to the suggestion given via the celebrated tortoise from Georgia that well being care would value less if everyone turned into a doctor, it by hook or by crook ended up being one of the crucial more coherent debates on Obamacare you’ll ever see.

Watch the video beneath, by way of Fusion:

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