Keith Olbermann w/ Update on Gov. Brewer's Transplant Death Panel Victims:

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Because of the GOP death panel law, about 100 people in need of transplants are facing death today in Arizona. In the video above, Keith Olbermann interviewed two of them, both fathers of young children.

Rough transcript from MSNBC, with some corrections:


Good evening from New York. This is Friday, November 19th. 718 days until the 2012 presidential elections. Yes, Mrs. Palin, there is a government death panel. It is in Jan Brewer’s Arizona.

Government action which will actually condemn some low-income Americans to death was passed this March by Republican state legislature and signed into law by a Republican governor. It took effect the first of october. You’ll presently meet two men and their families who have been condemned to die by this de facto death panel.

First the background. Approximately 1 million, 300 thousand Arizona residents are covered by that state’s version of Medicaid, known as known as AHCCCS. (Pronounced "Access" - Editor) Faced with a massive deficit, Arizona lawmakers asked AHCCCS to identify possible spending cuts.

AHCCCS got advice on these cuts from two companies, one of them owned by the same subsidiary of United Health Care that provided insurance companies with data that helped push costs onto patients, and that was used by Republicans as a supposedly nonbiased source of information in the health-care debate.

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1. Would have been great if Keith and others made this an issue BEFORE the election.

But then, no one gave a damn. It was "only Arizona". And yes, I am bitter and proudly so.Sorry but this is too little, too late.

[Monique1]

2. this was not in the news until the other day

but sorry to say there was info on DU about the organ transplants before.