MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 6 August 2009: Keith shows video from town halls and interview with Jonathan Alter of Newsweek.
OLBERMANN: There's two elements here - this is the old 'I've got mine, so screw you. I'm already in the rowboat, you can swim' argument, but it's also the 'you're going to change my insurance ' thing. How do you answer the sort-of deep-seated emotion that's behind that, because clearly it's not based on fact.
ALTER: ...where she's wrong is that somehow if they've got it, it's going to be enough for them, or they're not going to be in danger of losing it, should they lose their job. A lot of people nowadays are losing their jobs, so what she's not factoring in is what happens to people who have some sort of a change that happens in their lives - they get sick, they actually need their health insurance. And it ends up being like homeowners insurance, where once you have a burglary suddenly they cancel your insurance. That's what health insurance is like and people who've not had big health challenges, as I have and others, don't understand, just because you're insured doesn't mean you're protected.
She's pretty confused, 'cause she looks like a Medicare recipient. I love these folks who say 'stop socialized medicine, but don't touch my Medicare.'
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