John Oliver Smeared With Defamation Suit After Claiming Health Care Exec Believed “It’s Okay If People Have Sh*t On Them For Days”

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John Oliver could find himself in the middle of a legal sh*t show if a health care executive takes the HBO host to trial for defamation. “Defendants falsely told millions of viewers of their show, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, that Dr.

Morley testified in a Medicaid hearing that ‘he thinks it’s okay if people have shit on them for days,’ intentionally leading viewers to believe that Dr.

Morley made these alleged statements about — and illegally denied Medicaid services to — a young man who has severe mental impairment, was harnessed in a wheelchair, wears diapers, and required in-home bathing and diaper changing because he could do neither himself,” reads a jury-seeking lawsuit against Oliver and Last Week Tonight producers Partially Important Productions.

Filed last week in New York federal court, the complaint from Dr. Brian Morley, the ex-medical director of health insurance corporation AmeriHealth Caritas adds of the April 14, 2024 Last Week Tonight episode examining Medicaid fraud and Managed Care Organizations: “Defendants’ false accusations were designed to spark outrage, and they did.