Keith Olbermann On "Death Panel" Lies And The Importance Of "Life Panels"

Keith Olbermann shares some of the details of his personal experience dealing with difficult medical decisions for his ill father and the importance of talking with loved ones about end-of-life care and the value to Americans of including "life panels" in any health reform solution.

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[Carbolicsmokeball26]

Dear Mr. Olbermann, I wish you and your family all the best during this difficult time. I myself have had to deal with a similar situation. Luckily, I am Canadian and this occurred in Canada... so issues as to payment never came up. Some people here are bashing you for talking about this situation with your audience. I for my part think you are courageous, even in this difficult time, to attempt to share your insight with your fellow Americans. Here's wishing you continued strength!

[sugarcanegray]

best wishes, Keith, to you and your family.

[macgeek2004]

@Carbolicsmokeball26

Guys, look at this post, because this is EXACTLY how the more informed and intelligent people of this country and, in fact, the rest of the world see Keith Olbermann, and more importantly, this is how HISTORY will view him. Not as a "wild-eyed partisan," like kronkite was in his day, but as the polished hero history claimed him to be later.

[davishigh09]

i love you keith you speak for me and my family

[caliscribe]

You may disagree with Olbermann and his politics, but what he says is important.

On March 8 of this year, I was visiting my parents-in-law in a nursing center. My mother-in-law was recovering from abdominal obstruction, my father-in-law from a fall that aggravated his dementia. While I was chatting with Mom, the doctor came in after examining Dad and said that he had apparently suffered a stroke over the weekend that had left him blind. Because my in-laws had had that discussion, my mother-in

[1961arnie]

theres you death panels it is call an insurance company and you want to give them back that much power over your life how stupid can you be

[JediDude38]

Gotta love these insane idiots who are bashing Keith for using this tragic event in his life to show us all the reality of what is actually going on in the real part of American. I wonder what will happen when they are watching their own father or mother die a little everyday ... since they are less than human I doubt it will mean much to them.

[lovesclassiccars]

@Eric8542010 I wished his father well, who died since, not Keith Olbermann himself.

[Eric8542010]

@SkylineTime, do you mean Tamron Hall and Eugene Robinson?

[Eric8542010]

@lovesclassiccars, wow, how can someone go from saying something vile and mean about somone to saying something nice? "As much as I fucking hate your guts, I wish you well in life". Disturbing

[1961arnie]

the use of wisdom thats some the the right hasn't heard of yet

[HelmutHedd]

@sueells - Olbertard doesn't put out facts, he puts out bullshit and teleprompter-inspired drama for the mind-numbed Obama-drones to lap up. Olbermann, nor his teleprompter, have read the bill. Nor have you. Nobody has read it all, not even the vote-whoring low-lifes that wrote it.