Why Senator Jay Rockefeller Will Vote Yes (Video)
Keith Olbermann disagrees with Jay Rockefeller. I have excerpted comments from each of them below – with a link to the Olbermann video.
Keith Olbermann (who offers praise for Senator Rockefeller at the 45-second mark):
“The American insurance cartel is the death panel. And this Senate bill does nothing to destroy it. Nor even to satiate it. It merely decrees that our underprivileged, our sick, our elderly, our middle class can be fed into it as human sacrifices to the great maw of corporate voraciousness at a profit per victim at ten cents on the dollar, instead of the current twenty.” (From 1:39 through 2:04 of an 11-minute 58-second special comment.)
Senator Jay Rockefeller (responding to criticism by Governor Howard Dean, not Keith Olbermann):
“… I’m going to vote yes.
I’m a grown up. You’re a grown up. And we’ve been around this business for a long time. And you never get everything that you want. You don’t sulk about it. You try to keep improving the bill. And you do it next year, or the year afterwards. Up ’til now health care’s been every 15 or 20 years. From now on it’s going to be every single year. I love that.” (This concludes the 2-minute 18-second excerpt.)
Video from TPMtv.
