Powerful Olberman Special Comment on Healthcare

Tonight, Keith Olberman did an hour-long “Special Comment” on health care. You can find it in chunks here if you haven’t seen it. If you haven’t seen it, you need to take a look. This isn’t a casual clip, it’s an hour long essay about health care, modern health care politics, and Olberman’s personal story. It’s sad, angry, cathartic, and all the rest, but perhaps the most important thing is that it is powerful.

It’s not powerful in the way a Michael Moore movie is, or in the way an Obama speech is. It’s in the way that a political former sportscaster can start talking about how he is helping his Dad fight kidney problems, and how he feels guilty about being able to afford health care other people won’t get, and without which other people not as well off will die.

But it’s the sad dark poetry of his words at the beginning about how health care is, in essense, a fight against death. A fight for life against death, and how we’re all in this together. And how we owe it to one another to go in together on doctors. Amazingly powerful and something that you should watch. Even if you’re a Republican or against Obama, watch this and leave me a comment of why he’s wrong. If I was a smarter man, I would have said this all sooner. But I know that I can’t say it better. Please, watch it.