{"id":13978,"date":"2019-02-11T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:23:19","slug":"duck-dynasty-star-phil-roberston-makes-bold-claim-says-dont-need-health-care-just-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2019\/02\/duck-dynasty-star-phil-roberston-makes-bold-claim-says-dont-need-health-care-just-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Duck Dynasty Star Phil Roberston Makes Bold Claim, Says We Don\u2019t Need Health Care Just Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13980\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2019\/02\/philrobertson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2019\/02\/philrobertson.jpg\" alt=\"Gage Skidmore\/Flickr.com\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gage Skidmore\/Flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An interview recently resurfaced on Fox Business Tuesday of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson criticizing support of universal health care.<\/p>\n<p>Roberston believes that instead of medicine, people need more Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have eternal healthcare and it\u2019s free,\u201d Phil Robertson says.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good news from the right&#8211; you don&#8217;t even need healthcare because you get eternal healthcare from God in the afterlife and it&#8217;s free. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CjPCse7Ggw\">pic.twitter.com\/CjPCse7Ggw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briantylercohen\/status\/1092899729879457792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Robert singled in on Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) who supports a \u201cMedicare for all\u201d plan to create a single-player system for health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKamala, I already have health care. It\u2019s given to me by God. Eternal health care,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When host Neil Cavuto questioned him about the fact that people \u201cget sick on Earth in human form,\u201d Roberston said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe temporary reprieve is not worth it. I\u2019m telling her, I have eternal health care and it\u2019s free. Doctors can give you a little temporary reprieve, but they cannot save you from physical death. The doctors who treat you, they die, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cavotu then said, \u201cBut you\u2019re not dismissing that we need, people need health care, right?\u201d Cavuto asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have health care for 50 years,\u201d Roberston said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview recently resurfaced on Fox Business Tuesday of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson criticizing support of universal health care. Roberston believes that instead of medicine, people need more Jesus. \u201cI have eternal healthcare and it\u2019s free,\u201d Phil Robertson says. 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