MICHAEL MOORE: LOOK IN THE MIRROR, SICKO (Michelle Malkin)

Michelle Malkin ^ | 22 December 2004 | Michelle Malkin

[Spyder]

If you don't subscribe to Placebo Journal ($) and Placebo Gazette (free via email) yet, I highly recommend it to you. You sound like you'd really enjoy it (my husband and I and most medical professionals we recommend it to love it). The Gazette is particularly good at bashing trial lawyers while the Journal is great for a few cynical laughs.

Here's the site to check it out: Placebo Journal

[daviddennis]

Please understand that I'm not opposing or attacking you as a person; I'm saying there's something wrong with the system, and I want to understand it.

Sepsis, a cardiac infaract, a pulmonary embolis, and so on, existed decades ago.

Health care was a lot cheaper decades ago.

What's changed?

I'd like to see a pie chart showing how costs in health care have changed over the years, and how much of it is simply due to an aging population that needs more health care.

I can get a $200,000 operation in India, using Indian doctors, for $10,000.

Why shouldn't I?

Isn't it absurd to pay $200,000 for an operation?

D

[gas_dr]

I love placebo journal...it is one of the rare medical journals that I read on a regular basis.

[ladyinred]

Hi there Lando, hope you had a Merry Christmas!

[Quinotto]

Lard Almighty, M&M should be the last person to attack the pharmaceutic industry, I am sure he already takes full advantage of their products. According to his age and weight and overall appearance he fits the profile of dealing with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia or other lipid disorders, osteoarthritis, hirsutism (that sure explains the excess of facial hair), incontinence, hand problems (umm, no comment there) and that's to name a few.

[Quinotto]

Working IT in a hospital doesn't make you an expert in billing procedures now, does it? It is amazing to me to see all these people complaining of high healthcare costs. The most common comparison used is about the the "famous" Canadian free healthcare. And yet it never fails to amaze me the number of Canadian patients I have, taking long trips all the way down to Florida JUST to receive the proper medical care. Did you know that by law, the Canadian healthcare does NOT report hospital errors? Do you understand, at least by working...IT in a hospital, what it means? Just because it's free, doesn't mean it's quality. I also dealt with the free healthcare in a former Eastern European communist country and I tell you, it was NOT free. You had to bribe the staff, the physicians and even housekeeping in order to get care. Even in Western Europe, the system is a combination of the Canadian system and our HMO, where you have an assigned physician and your care is fiscally managed. Elective surgery? You better be prepared to wait a while! While I admit, our system is not flawless it's still the best in the world and that is because of dollars and sense!

[Quinotto]

Ditto! It is amazing to me how people compare hospital stay with hotel stay. When you call for room service is not the same thing as calling for...code blue. But to understand how a hospital operates, people need to work in one (and not IT), I am talking about the clinical staff, direct patient care. Just like anything else, the response is strictly emotional and not well-thought, a response which comes from misinformation (or lack thereafter).

[Blue Collar Christian]

"Maybe he could do this country some good with this one?"

Not if he can help it. He's Anti-American commie scum!

[Ditter]

Does anyone know that MM tried his hand at acting before he took up making crockumentaries. Someone told me that saw is fat self in a small part in a movie. Now if I could remember which movie we could all rush out and NOT rent it.

[Blue Collar Christian]

"A rib spreader big enough for Mikey will need to be brought to his gasping carcass with a forklift."

Hopefully on some sand dunes.

[Spyder]

LOL - that you already read "PJ" doesn't surprise me in the least - guess that's why I recommended it in the first place. And we also read it cover to cover, including the "ads." I'm tempted to send it to a couple of docs I transcribe for but I'm not sure if they share my evil sense of humor, finely honed when I was a physical therapist at a university hospital and we used to round with the orthopods and plastic surgery residents (burn unit and transgenders who got measured for Jobst stockings).

[FITZ]

But probably if someone spends only one night in the hospital they really were not all that sick --- no one recovers from a serious disease that fast.

And often when there is a vague but recurring abnormal test more tests get done and often nothing is discovered.

If government takes over health care --- there will be rationing --- and it will be done on the basis of votes because that's how politicians think.

[freekitty]

He won't be doing the country any good if he has no credibility and makes up stuff. If, anything, he will make the problems worse.

[tescoveee]

 

Moore / BEACHED WHALE Yahoo typo!!

Check out this Yahoo link.  It's about Moore's new pharma movie and includes
two Michael Moore pictures: one of the fat commie himself, and one of a picture
of a ***beached sperm whale*** taken my a photographer named Michael Moore.
Yes, a beached sperm whale.  I could not make this stuff up.  This must be one of the
best mislinks of all time.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&e=15&u=/ap/people_moore