Olbermann, Time for Reconciliation – Health Care Reform
Keith Olbermann presented one of his special comments on his show Countdown this evening. The quality of these is variable ranging from the blistering accurate to the so what. This one definitely belongs in the first category. It is spot on concluding that reconciliation is the only way to go, that the bill, as it stands, is a complete gift to the insurance industry and that there is no way on earth that an individual mandate without some form of public option can be good for the people.
He names names and everyone from Grassley to Obama gets it in the neck. He was extremely miffed by Gibbs ridiculing of Howard Dean earlier today. If anyone is qualified to speak on this it is Dean who has worked on healthcare and is of course a doctor. Olbermann thinks that the Whitehouse has badly misjudged the public mood on this and I think he is right.
In an interesting move Olbermann stated that if this bill passes he will not buy insurance and made a call for others to do the same even if they can afford it.
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UPDATE: full transcript here
No single payer? No sale. No public option? No sale. No Medicare buy-in? No sale. I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health care reform. Pass this at your peril, Senators, and sign it at yours, Mr. President. I will not buy this insurance. Brand me a lawbreaker if you choose. Fine me if you will. Jail me if you must.
But if the Medicare Buy-In goes, but the Mandate stays, the people who fought so hard and so sincerely to bring sanity to this system must kill this mutated version of their dream, because those elected by us to act for us have forgotten what must be the golden rule of health care reform. It is the same one to which physicians are bound, by oath: First do no harm.
@jimbotex @wyldraven thnx for RTs re KOs special comment http://bit.ly/5PsXTl – I’ve added a link to transcript
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RT: @steve_g2: Olbermanns Special Comment on #hcr and a couple of thoughts: http://bit.ly/5PsXTl || You said it, Steve!
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“…a complete gift to the insurance industry…”
we are in agreement. i’ll stand by Dr. Dean and KO and, the the rest of the activist liberal left.
no action/support on/for
GLBT > Equal Rights/Marriage/Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
IRAQ withdrawl (? now ’2014′)
Af/Pakistan putting more (human) ‘meat’ into that ‘grinder’
and now, COMPLETE CAPITULATION to:
BIG Pharma (witness the Kerry Dodd et al Senate votes to keep BIG Pharmas profits in the US intact v supporting Dorgan’s reimportation amendment)
HARTFORD, CT & Joe LIEberman’s INSURANCE overlords.
The ‘honeymoon’ isn’t just over between Obama & the liberal activist base, the ‘marriage’ was never ‘consummated’ and like Tiger Woods, Obama has been outted for ‘sleeping’ around’ with all manner of ‘pro/am hookers’ and come home w/a case of herpes and some really lame excuses.
Agree
The Dorgan amendment stinks. It was sunk by a deal to sacrifice it for the medicare donut hole. Guess what will happen next? Here’s a guess, The donut hole concession will be stripped later on in the process.
Pharma and the Health insurance industry must be laughing themselves stupid at the sheer ineptitude of the Dem leadership.
RT @steve_g2: Olbermanns Special Comment on #hcr and a couple of thoughts: http://bit.ly/5PsXTl // Go here. Good comments!
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Olbermanns Special Comment on #hcr and a couple of thoughts: http://bit.ly/5PsXTl
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