Charles Osgood Equates Private Health Care with Michael Jackson’s Fatal Addiction
Winfield Myers • August 25, 2009 • Uncategorized
Charles Osgood, best known for anchoring CBS News Sunday Morning, says that Michael Jackson’s last action–a plea to his corrupt personal physician Conrad Murray for a dose of propofol–is analogous to the desires of Americans who want to keep their private health plans rather than hand over complete control of their health to Obamacare.
In today’s Osgood Files, the show’s host notes that Jackson was “killed by drugs administered at his request by his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who is now in big trouble.”
Osgood then twists the truth of the story to claim that it was Jackson’s choice of a private “health care plan” that set up his untimely demise:
Michael Jackson was one of those Americans who liked his health care plan — and decided to keep it. That health care plan was Dr. Conrad Murray and his supply of sedatives [emphasis added].
Osgood next describes the drug-addled requests by Jackson for the series of injections that led to his death, after which he ends his broadcast with this transparently mendacious statement:
And yet, he [Conrad] was only doing what his patient demanded — and in a way, what you hear many Americans demanding: providing privately-funded health care, unfettered by government regulation of any kind [emphasis added].
Osgood asks us to believe that Americans who like their private insurance plans are just as reckless and self-destructive as Michael Jackson. By implication, only a government-run, single-payer system will save us from ourselves, so incompetent, so incapable are we of making the correct choices for our own health.
This illustrates not only media’s sycophantic relationship with the Obama administration. More than that, it demonstrates the arrogance and contempt the political class holds for Americans. We are, you see, just too stupid to rule ourselves; we must be ruled by our betters, who of course include the likes of Charles Osgood.
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