An Open Question for Keith Olbermann

I remember the good old days, back when Keith Olbermann was just a local sportscaster. Back then, we didn't have to endure his nearly constant stream of ad-hominem attacks on those that he differs with. At the end of a twelve minute diatribe on December 17th, 2009, in which he attacked everyone from Max Baucus to Barack Obama, Olbermann let something slip. Watch this clip, and see if you catch it.

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Did you catch it? Keith Olbermann is self-insured. By choice. Now I ask you, if health insurance is so important, if the future of this country is tied to reform of the entire Health Care Industry, and especially the insurance industry, why doesn't Keith Olbermann, who seems relatively well educated, own it? More importantly, if Mr. Olbermann doesn't own it for himself, why does he think that it is so important that it should be forced on everybody else?

The answer, of course, is that, barring catastrophe, it is cheaper for Olbermann to contract for his own medical care than it is to do so through an insurance policy. I have said this for some time. An insurance company has considerable overhead in addition to paying your medical bills. They have to pay all of their employees, as well as attorneys and investigators. They have infrastructure that has to be bought and maintained. There are court costs. Oh yeah, it would be nice to turn a profit as well. All this is on top of paying medical expenses.

So, Mr. Olbermann, it would seem that you are among the ranks of that blight upon society, the uninsured. But if it is so important not only that everyone has access to health care, but health insurance, why, Mr. Olbermann, do you not own it?