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'Last Week Tonight': John Oliver creates another fake church to unmask religious healthcare loophole

By Deadline  
   June 28, 2021

John Oliver is back with another fake gimmick — this time, a church. After a lengthy segment in which Oliver detailed Health Care Sharing Ministries, non-profits with common religious beliefs that share medical bills, and how they regularly exploit morality clauses to deny coverage to queer people, the obese or even people who smoke or drink, the host decided to bring the hammer down on the hypocritical organizations by starting one of his own.

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