Alan Grayson on Countdown: The Republican Party is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Corporate America Video

Alan Grayson and Keith Olbermann discuss that the time for universal health care has finally come.

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NickCave13: Crayzyson and Olberwoman, a DUALITY OF DORKS !!!

collapseofthedollar: duality of radical pinkos

collapseofthedollar: this argument really boils down to, SHOULD WE USE DEADLY FORE TO TAKE PEOPLE'S MONEY TO GIVE IT TO OTHER PEOPLE. deadly force, what's he talking about? i'd like to see you take my money, come try. I think you're goign to need the federal government on your side, and I'm sure they'll be happy to help. And if I decide to resist, I'm sure they'd blow me away as soon as I reach for a gun

collapseofthedollar: and before you scold me about how I'm a cold hearted bastard, I give plenty to charity, just stop taking my money at gunpoint okay. and no i dont watch fox, so please, don't bother me with that business

Peacetoyouandyours: Yes you are. And then you do it again. Which again shows how weak your argument is. I've been for Socialized Health Care for 30 years. I was born before President(the elected kind) Obama. All you do is insult and try to put words in mouth because you don't have an argument. Go ahead and do it again. Don't expect a response.

mickeysears: I know that Republicans get millions from corporations and lobbiests every year. That's nothing new. But in responce to the video where Grayson says that Republicans are a slave to corporations when the fact is that Democrats actually receive 3 times as much money as Republicans. Here is also one more fact. The house bill HR1207, Audit The Federal Reserve, if Republicans are so entranched with corps and banks, then why are all republicans in favor of auditing the fed but the dems are not?

bnfox: mickeysears - I agree that Dems completely suck for not getting on board with HR1207. I will say that Repubs were slaves to corporations until the corporations decided the Dems would best serve them at this moment...but the Repubs have a tradition of serving their corporate masters well (just as the Dems are doing now.)

NickCave13: Why did regular Olbermann guest, Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, state that Alan Grayson is; "One fry short of a Happy Meal"? Why didn't Olbermann ask Grayson how he felt about this? I'm guessing if he had asked him, Grayson's response would have been; "Mmm, Happy Meal, garrrgh"!!!

mistertea1776: Self-Made Millionaire... as an ambulance chaser... Sensible ideas like tort-reform are like kryptonite to this cat.

davidesposito1: because they couldnt get their pet projects out like that as it would be made avaliable to the public and things would happen

knowledgemonger: Law suits get blamed for the high cost of health care when in fact it really only adds either 0.5% or 3% depending on which study you take. The 3% study was done by the W admin when they wanted to get a tort reform bill put through.

amsquare: He was not a malpractice attorney. Made his dough with IDT. He sued on behalf of whistleblowers in cases where war-profiteering corporations were stealing from the US in Iraq. I do wish, however, that he would support medical malpractice reform. Despite his statements to the contrary, I am convinced that health care costs are driven upward by frivolous lawsuits and excessive awards for "pain and suffering?"

amsquare: They probably looked at the wrong things. It is hard to know what is unnecessary when evaluating the ordering of medical tests. however they are being performed ordered by physicians for defensive purposes. In addition, good physicians leave practice prematurely, or limit their practices to limit exposure to bad outcomes and lawsuits. Lastly, the cost of medical malpractice insurance has put an enormous burden on physicians. Few can afford the continued escalation.

armyofonerd: What an idiot, it is such a good thing and needed to "save lives", and yet it does not begin for another 4 years?? WTF? Lets see, you begin to collect money now, but will not start this for another 4 years - why? If it is so important now and people are dying, why wait 4 years to begin? Thats right, because it costs 3 to 4 times what they are saying and they need 4 years worth of our tax money to get it lifted off the ground, before it instantly demands massive additional funding. You Lie!

knowledgemonger: When the Bush folks tried did their figures, they were trying to make them as high as they could because they were out to prove that the lawyers were the problem. They would have included every cost you can think of and some you can't. The law suits are only a small part of the problem. A bigger part of the problem is the fact that a person who is injured must get all the money they will ever need to cover their future medical needs that result from the injury.

amsquare: What is to be done about the enormous increase in medical malpractice premiums that good doctors must pay because of the enormous number of mostly frivolous malpractice cases generated by the lottery-like mentality created by the legal profession. I am a strong supporter of health insurance reform, but as a physician I know the reality of the medical malpractice insurance problem. Many of my colleagues are stressed, and a number of them have left the profession. It is a real problem.

knowledgemonger: Not a hue amount is being done at this point except: If injured folks didn't have to count on the proceeds from a law suit to pay the ongoing cost of health care, the insurance costs would be less too. Unfortunately there are lots of ways that the or profit insurance companies are part of the problem. A person who is injured by a doctor has the classic "pre-existing condition". Hopefully, something can be done about the malpractice problem more directly in the future.

knowledgemonger: Yes he was basically a one man fraud squad against those who retaliated against the whistle blowers. The Bush admin. didn't join him in a single law suit. They helped to protect those who were ripping off the tax payers and putting the troop in danger. The numbers just don't support the common conception that "pain and suffering" settlements are a big part of the problem. The outrages are extreme but rare. More commonly the injured party gets less than full compensation.

amsquare: As a physician, I can tell you that the proliferation of malpractice suits has a profound affect on how we practice medicine and a major impact on our psychological and economic well being. My wife, also a physician (extremely well respected in her difficult specialty) was tortured by having to fight a malpractice suit in which she was ultimately vindicated. She suffered two years and when it was over, the patient who sued wanted to return to her! She quit the profession in disgust.

amsquare: It is not that there are large awards being handed out every day...indeed, most who sue do not prevail. It is that there are so many suits presented and so many increases in malpractice insurance rates that it casts a pall over the practice of medicine. We feel that we practice with the sword of Damocles dangling precariously over our heads. We worry that any bad outcome, whether or not we bear responsibilty for it, will lead to accusations and disruptive legal action. That clouds judgement.

amsquare: I therefore propose that along with the very necessary health insurance reform, that we also pass signficant medical malpractice reform, so that the two tortured parties in this health care mess - patients and doctors - be provided relief.

knowledgemonger: I agree that there needs to be malpractice reform. It would be very hard to get a law through that was any good however. The new law would have to provide free health care to the injured party or something so that the injured parties would be made whole as bast as can be done. This would bring screams of "socialism" and "new taxes" etc. It would be very hard to make it budget neutral.

knowledgemonger: Yes we need to fix the malpractice system but we need to do so without preventing the truly injured from being compensated. This is a very hard problem.

Hangtime96: sorry , I was scrolling down the page and I saw your post . I also believe that the majority of Malpractice suits are fraudulent but I also believe that a if a physicain makes a mistake Which places a patients life in danger or that mistakes that leaves a disability , then Malpractice should be filed . Some of the reasons I've heard for malpractice lawsuits ARE ridiculous .

cocobear33: grayson is a fucking idiot , both parties are owned by corporate america , but of course he's on msnbc keith olbermann so the truth does not matter, both sides are dirty and that's a fact

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