I’m late in posting this but it is so compelling that, really, it’s better late than not at all. On October 7, 2009, Keith Olberman devoted his hour-long show on MSNBC to a special comment on health care reform in the United States. Really, I think it is more than a statement about health care legislation. It is a passionate and obviously deeply felt commentary about fundamental human values and how we embody them – or fail to embody them – in government policy. Today the National Academy of Science announced that it has finally, for the first time since the 1950’s, revised its criteria for determining who is “living in poverty” and as a result has determined that 15.8% or almost 1 in 6 Americans are living in poverty. The news should only amplify Olberman’s denunciation of those who profit from human misery.
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