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[thoreau]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677#32277034 (video)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32276889/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann (text)

[Ya-ta Boy]

I also posted the same thing earlier.

[thoreau]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Great minds think alike. Anyway, it seems you and I are the only ones impressed by Olbermann's performance.

[RufusW]

Me too, it was very good. Corporate capture of democracy means it simply doesn't follow what the electorate actually feels. America really needs campaign finance reform.

[Kikomom]

The U.S. needs to adopt "Best Practices". I can't remember which country, but a couple months ago I read about how they developed their national health care plan. They studied the BEST PRACTICES of other countries with such care and adopted them. Throw out what wasn't working and use the best.

Why can't the US do that? Because too many people are getting rich from insurance payments, like ex-TN Senator Frisk, and lobbyists, insurance, drug, and companies that are nothing but leeches. Doctors, nurses, hospital workers, techs, staff are well worth their salaries. Admin and bureaucrats too. But too much is siphoned off by middlemen and contractors that drives the prices up and the taxpayer/patient broke. Even auditors in Texas are contractors.

The VA is the best model in the U.S. (I use them, I know), yet even they contract out--I have my yearly mammograms done at my local hospital and they bill the VA. There is smart, efficient contracting, but when the Republicans push for 'small govt', all they really mean is farm the work out--and pay 2-3x more than having it done first hand, funneling off taxpayer money to guys like Frist, who own the system.

They know perfectly well that anytime money crosses palms, some rubs off. The rub off.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[ubermenzch]

An interesting commentary. I was happy to see him call out both Republicans and Democrats for the slavish attention they give to the corporate interests. This is beyond dispute. But I disagree with his warning to the blue-dogs that progressives and moderates are watching them and if they fail to pass the health care reform needed (public option) they will be voted out of office. That strikes me as an obvious bit of ideological posturing. The polls seem to indicate that a significant portion of the electorate, particularly independents (who are of no small import), actually approve of what the blue-dogs are doing, especially their slowing down of the legislative process.

[thoreau]

[Cheonmunka]

[Kikomom]

When George Bush came in office we began to call it Funnel Inc., Cronies Inc., ...some of us have known this from the start. Beginning with Faith-Based Charities and NCLB, all the bull about wanting 'smaller govt' certainly had it's appeal. The beauty was how they eased their way into the rape and pillaging all the way thru to the bailouts. You can call it contracting, out-sourcing, privatization... it's all the same thing.

Now the battle comes to Health Care, you better believe it's samo samo.

[thoreau]

[Kikomom]

To be perfectly fair, Obama inherited Wall St. Inc. and the bailouts of last October (sucking blood from the stone) fell under W's watch.

And Thoreau, the VA is not the worst by any means. Bush's war did it's best to break it, Walter Reed and Bethesda were overwhelmed with wounded and amputees. But the rest of the system carries on just fine.

[mises]

[thoreau]