Keith Olbermann Special Comment Healthcare 10/07/09

Kieth Olbermann gave a stirring and poignant hour-long special comment devoted to healthcare reform, and this is the call at the end for what he wants Americans to do.

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[Fringe111]

Anyone who saw this and dissagrees has no heart. Keith is right when he said that we are slaves to the insurance co. for what can we do about it. If you protest then they drop you. That's midevil. The strangle hold they have on us is complete and yet there are still people out there who still dones't believe it.

[classicallady]

They insist on combating us but don't bother to do a little research as how we Europeans are way healthier than them. Same goes for Canada.

[cronos225]

You say that he tells everything but the news. Ya, this is an opinion show. He is telling you his opinion. Fox news has opinion shows too, but they also claim to have legitimate news. The only thing is the news is dripping with the same bias as the opinion.

[cronos225]

Don't want your health care "rationed by the government"? Fine, then don't take the public option, its as simple as that. It is called an option for a reason. But don't deny people who can't afford or don't qualify for private insurance the chance to get it because you are paranoid. We have rationing now. There are lines now. The insurance companies are driven by profit, not your well being. They have an incentive to deny you care, and they do it more often then should be legal.

[TheToughCrowd]

NO they dont spend money well in the war. Don't you remember hearing about how so many soldiers who didnt have the proper armor? Or when the military "misplaced" millions of dollars"?

There are other ways to "save lives". A public option is NOT the answer. I like my health care and if I lose my job, I don't want to be force to use a government plan. Which if you READ the bill, once it goes through you MAY NOT switch or change your private health care. If you lose it, you MUST use the government.

[dghkdghkdghk]

If you're in any way in favor of any war the US is waging, i.e. against "terrorism", you must at least think they know where to spend the money.

Now if instead of spending that money to kill people, they spent it to save lives... what do you think could be wrong about that?

And there is no news on FOX, I don't know how to put it without a sophism, but you're litteraly a tool if you think otherwise.

[TheToughCrowd]

FIRST... I think it is tooooo funny that he bags on FOX for not telling the news....

This guy tells anything but the news.

SECOND...

You trust the GOVERNMENT...to spend OUR money on health??? Since when do they EVER spend money correctly??!?!?!?

[slickmatt82]

And one last tip, I hope you at least learned Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, or some other Asian language. Your western European since of entitlement and culture are dying. It's about to be there time.

[slickmatt82]

I have no idea what this rebutted or meant, so you CAN have the last word. I am glad you can speak six languages, but I have no idea what that has to do with anything. But since you brought it up it's thanks to the U.S. that it wasn't just one: German, or Russian. Imagine health care in Europe without the benefits of advancements made in the U.S., should it go socialist. Imagine how weak the militaries of different Euro countries would look without US backing.

[km6xz]

I am afraid you are right Classicallady. The whole society glorifies ignorance and revels in it, takes the word of Beck, Hannity, Rush and corporations but never think that it is not difficult to dig deeper and find that is all propaganda and that they are willing pawns. When asking any one of them for context or the basis for their beliefs, it never comes from knowledge or experience, it comes from "I heard it somewhere" or that some bit of propaganda happens to fit one of their biases.

[surgewakefield]

People might be more convinced the government would handle health-care properly if they hadn't bailed out billion dollar corporations first. I support the public option but I understand why so may people fight it - they don't think that the government will stay good on their word.

[liberalshavenospine]

Euroman25, I am glad somebody will tell the truth around here. The people in the U.S don't believe rationing of health care happens. It mostly happens when the government finds out the staggering cost of health care, and they care afford to pay for it. That is when the rationing starts. The young get preference over the old. You get treatment according to how much you contribute to society. If you are old and retired. i feel sorry for you under this form of health care.