Countdown will have a ONE HOUR SPECIAL COMMENT on health care "reform' WEDNESDAY NIGHT.and...

[joeycola]

EDITED TO CORRECT TO SAY TOMORROW EVENING--
THANKS TO THE POSTER WHO NOTED THIS.


Tune in.

In the meantime-here are some of todays "discussion" posts for your reading pleasure



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=383397&mesg_id=383397
Countdown: 'Mad As Hell Doctor' - "This is the Civil Rights Issue of our Generation"

MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - Oct. 5, 2009: Dr. Paul Hochfeld of Mad As Hell Doctors interviewed.

OLBERMANN: About the phalanx of physicians, I'm joined now by Dr. Paul Hochfeld, an emergency medical physician from Corvalis in Oregon and a member of Mad As Hell Doctors. His organization was not invited to the event today at the White House, but Dr. Hochfeld believed his group should be represented, so he showed up anyway and was able to talk himself inside.

First of all, what exactly is or are Mad As Hell Doctors mad about?

HOCHFELD: Well, we're some Oregon doctors, members of PNHP who are dismayed and distressed at the health care debate that WASN'T going on in Washington. There was a debate between a failed individual mandate with or without a wounded public plan.

But what I'm really mad about, and what we're mostly mad about, is not health care. What we're mad about is that our legislatures were really complicit with the industry, the insurance industry, in manipulating public policy so that it is more about profits than public good. And that's what we're seeing with this health care bill that's coming out of Congress right now, or appears at least to be making it to the floor of Congress. It's this individual mandate, and it really is incremental change that isn't going to shift the power of the industry in this sick care non-system we've got.

OLBERMANN: This issue of the public option and the idea that it might get in name only or in watered-down form, let alone the idea that the single-payer went out the window months ago before even the debate started or the compromising started. How do you feel about the status of the public option?..........
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and an older one---Recognize the language?


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[dragonlady]

1. I believe it will be on Wednesday

Thanks for posting this. It will be a very important program.

[joeycola]

3. oh, drats, I got my days mixed up. But thanks.

[gkhouston]

2. A one hour special comment? I hope Olbermann's taken some anti-vertigo pills.

Those dramatic camera changes can make you dizzy. :crazy:

on edit: If there are any good new pro-healthcare reform commercials floating around out there, what a venue to show them off!

[joeycola]

4. yes, but it is Wednesday and a poster above corrected me.

[gkhouston]

5. That's okay. It will give us some time to anticipate. Thanks for the heads up. n/t

[charlie and algernon]

6. a 1 hour speech by Olberman?

why???

Why not give that hour to Obama, Biden, or someone from the admin to talk about it?

Keith's great, but I don't see what's SO special about him that warrants him giving a 1 hour speech on health care.

[Armstead]

7. Because Obama and Biden and the administration will push their MUSH

I suspect Olberman is going to hammer the administration as well as Congress for their shameful refusal to even consider meaningful reform like single payer or even to stand behind the watered-down public option.

[charlie and algernon]

8. ok, so why can't he do that during his usual 10 minute special comment?

what more can he realistically offer that warrants an entire hour?

[Armstead]

9. Watch and find out I guess -- Maybe he'll have guests

[RepublicanElephant]

10. well....

...it IS his show.

p.s. love those owls!

[endless october]

11. will watch.

looking forward to hearing it. hope some of those who are holding up real reform watch it, too.