Because the Olympics were shoving around his time slot, my TiVo didn't catch Keith Olbermann on Wednesday. Thanks to Ye Olde Internet though, I was able to catch this "Special Comment" he did that day in advance of the Thursday summit on Health Care Reform. It included a plea to the participants which I doubt they even heard, let alone acted upon. Still, it was a powerful thirteen and a half minutes on Olbermann's current struggle with an ill father and how it relates to the slimy scare tactic of trying to defeat reform by claiming that it would establish "Death Panels." As if the current system, with skyrocketing costs and insurers denying coverage, isn't a Death Panel in and of itself.
This is long but having dealt with similar issues in my own life, I felt it was uncommonly honest. And if you may someday have to cope with making medical decisions for a loved one, or maybe if you won't, it's certainly worth thirteen and a half minutes of your time…
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