{"id":111,"date":"2009-10-08T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-10-08T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:11:00","slug":"olbermann-special-comment-%e2%80%93-saving-american-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/olbermann-special-comment-%e2%80%93-saving-american-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann: Special Comment \u2013 Saving American Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched this and found it too good not to share.&#160; If you prefer text to video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33213245\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a>.&#160; Otherwise, here is the video in it\u2019s entirety, a little over forty minutes in length.&#160; If you have not seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/33217642#33217642\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"339\"><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 5px; font-size: 11px; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; width: 425px; color: #999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">World News<\/a>, and <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>While watching, I remembered something I experienced last winter.&#160; During a particularly severe bout with pneumonia, my doctor wanted to put me in the hospital.&#160; When I refused to go, she told me I might die, if I did not.&#160; I told her that, if I did go to the hospital, my inability to pay the bill would destroy my good credit that I have needed to survive the last three years.&#160; Then I would end up under a bridge, which would kill me for sure.&#160; So I didn\u2019t go, and I recovered, but it was a choice nobody should have to make.<\/p>\n<p>I bet that this brings back tragic memories to many of you as well.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss today\u2019s other articles here, please.&#160; The rest would all have been lead stories most days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched this and found it too good not to share.&#160; If you prefer text to video, Click Here.&#160; Otherwise, here is the video in it\u2019s entirety, a little over forty minutes in length.&#160; If you have not seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so. &#160; Visit msnbc.com for Breaking <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/olbermann-special-comment-%e2%80%93-saving-american-lives\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}