Keith Olbermann: 'Last Night My Father Asked Me to Kill Him'
- What Is This Country For If Not to Take Care of It's People?
- There's something deep in the psyche of Americans that drives them to defend to the death their right to deny health care to millions of their fellow citizens.
Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, in Democratic Underground
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Jenni Charrier
Last Friday night, my father asked me to kill him.
This is not the central fact around which tomorrow's (Feb 24) health care summit at Blair House will, or should, revolve. But I'd like it on the record somewhere that I asked all those going there, including the President, to think more about people like my father - patients, in our hospitals, at this moment - and less about elections and political points and "crashing the party."
Related:
Why So Scared of a Public Plan? Joe Conason, TruthDig
Big insurance and pharmaceutical companies are lobbying frantically (and spending millions of dollars) to foreclose the possibility of the most promising aspect of health care reform: a public insurance option.
Americans would rather die than share, Linda McQuaigm, Straight Goods
There's something deep in the psyche of Americans that drives them to defend to the death their right to deny health care to millions of their fellow citizens.
US debate on health care is a warning to Canadians of the dangers of allowing our public health-care system to deteriorate.
