Our power driven speaker of the house is just plain lying. Her obsession with power is obscene. Speaker Pelosi is the most far left liberal speaker of the house from the most liberal state in the U.S. and the most liberal city in the country we have ever had. If you really listen to her rhetoric, her agenda is quite clear. In a press conference this month, touting how she finally achieved one of her agenda items. Pelosi said “since coming into POWER as a freshman senator.” this is quite telling. It is quite clear to me that she is obsessed with POWER. Pelosi has no regard for the people of this country, she has no regard for our rights as citizens, she is only concerned with her continued status and power.

Pelosi is extremely wealthy having taken advantage of the opportunities afforded by a capitalist economy, an economy that she has no regard for. The evidence of this is obvious if you look at her total disregard for how she is wasting our tax dollars.

This bill does nothing to reform the employer based system of healthcare, it does nothing to reform litigation (tort reform), it does nothing to end the exemptions from anti-trust laws, it does nothing to guarantee portability. Oh it will end denying exemptions because of pre-existing conditions, but what is going to happen to the rates of those of us who have healthcare insurance?

When will these “reforms” be implemented? After the next elections? Hell this is a flagrant move by the current folks in power to say look what we did, stay in power and let “we the people” pay the freight.

How can this reduce the debt? isn’t this more like buying something on sale and saying I saved money. NO! you spent money.

Even MSNBC is starting to question the banking bailout. Even MSNBC is starting to question some of the policies coming from our legislators. The only ones at MSNBC who still blindly follow this leadership are the talking heads like Keith Olbermann, Ed Shultz and Rachel Maddow. Who the hell is Ed Shultz any way?

I love it when we get the Congressmen/woman coming on air and saying we should have the same coverage they get. Did you know that federal employees pay on average $400 per month for family high option? Did you know that the Federal Government picks up the other two thirds. The total cost is about $1200 a month. Do the math, it is around $14,000 per year. Tell me how many people can afford $400 per month let alone $1200. The question is, will the government pick up the two thirds for all non-federal employees? Will all of our taxes go up to cover this cost.

Before we all celebrate a victory ask yourself this question, what did we win? what did we really achieve?

Why in the world are we rushing this bill through when it won’t even be implemented until a future date, least a year, maybe two out? What is the con? Oh I know it’s just a big political game with catastrophic results sometime in the future.

How can anyone believe this is good for the country or really accomplishes the goals and desires set forward by President Obama or the people of this country? I know the Healthcare system needs fixed, I know this bill will not get the job done.

Finally, Speaker Pelosi, do you actually believe “we the people can’t add? You can’t fool us about the cost by breaking out 250 billion into a separate bill. We may not be as stupid as you think we are.

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I watched the Keith Olbermann show, Countdown, for several nights in a row and listened to his moving plea for healthcare reform. In this hour long program Keith spoke passionately of his father’s brush with death and how he was thankful that he was able to get one of the top five surgeons in the world to save his fathers life.

I commend Keith on taking care of his father and agree that Keith was fortunate to be able to pay for his fathers medical services. Keith Olbermann had the ability to pay these bills because of the success in life afforded him by the opportunities of living in America. The high quality of care available to him was also because he lived in this county.

This story moved me until I realized that there were several things I didn’t understand because Keith did not mention them on his program. These omissions raised some questions in my mind.

Keith Olbermann is advocating healthcare reform, he is advocating Medicare or a Medicare like program for everyone in America and here is where my confusion begins. Keith’s father is 80 years old, does he have medicare coverage? Does medicare cover kidney transplants? Did Keith’s father get a transplant or some other type of surgery? Did this surgeon accept medicare? If medicare coverage was available why did Keith’s father not use the medicare system and  it doctors? What did Keith pay for, medicare share of costs? The overage of costs that medicare did not cover? Did Keith pay all the costs because medicare didn’t cover this procedure? The bottom line is why did Keith have to go to this highly skilled surgeon? The simple answer in my mind is because he could afford the best to save his fathers life.

I understand that even if Medicare would pay for the transplant the donors would probably be responsible for their own medical cost and possibly their insurance would not cover the procedure. I understand further coverage could or would be denied to them under the preexisting condition clause of their policies. But lets look at why. If you have a major surgery, do you not open your self up to the possibility that you may have future health issues as a result of the surgery? These problems may take years to manifest themselves. The insurance companies would have to cover you in your time of need. This may be a cost that would not have been incurred had you not been a donor. Others under the plan would see increases in their premiums and co-costs. I only bring this up to give you a different prospective on this issue.

Keith brought up a number of interesting and valid points concerning the insurance industry. I agree that a major reform of the insurance companies and our healthcare system is in order. I am not sure what the answers are, but I would not advocate for a government system that seemingly failed my father.  No matter whether we have a government program, private program or a combination of both, you can be sure that it will have it’s faults. You can be sure it will be expensive and you will pay for it. You can also be sure you will have a form of premiums, copayment, exclusions of coverage and all the other things we currently have to deal with.

We all hear about the obscene profits insurance companies get by denying coverage or payment for a multitude of reasons. If this is the case, perhaps our lawmakers should change the law to prohibit this practice. There are many things we could change in the system to create an affordable inclusive healthcare system. I believe we can do these things without have a government run system of healthcare. I have worked in a government bureaucracy, there are a lot of hardworking folks, but, I for one do not want a career civil servant making decisions about my healthcare.

Keith Olbermann’s plea did cause me to think about this issue. I think that he is passionate and sincere in his desire that good medical coverage is available to all of us. All I am asking is if the government is going to change the current system please don’t screw it up worse than it already is! Please don’t add additional cost to us! Please don’t add billions or trillions to our country’s debt.

I titled this blog as, Keith Oblermann, impassioned plea or spin. In my opinion it is a little of both. The only difference between Mr. Olbermann and all the extreme conservative talking heads is that he is an extreme liberal. Most Americans are not! we find it hard to believe what either side is saying when they continuously shout, scream and shade the truth. Just a thought to all of them….

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