Just to remind one and all what a disgusting human being Michael Moore is.
Posted on 08/22/2006 7:38:30 AM PDT by Huntress
I agree.
I'm sick of limo-libs spending other peoples millions and calling it a 'grass roots'.
Why pay for campaign commercials when you can string all the sound bites of the whole campaign into a 2 hour diatribe the voter pays for out of their own pocket?
What's the cost of Avid time these days? Pennies.
It bolsters the point that all art is propaganda.
I'd love to see him do an honest doc on the abortion industry. Who would be his friends then? THAT would be guts.
We can only hope this bastard kicks in soon but knowing how things are never fair he will probably live forever like Ted Kennedy.
There is - buy an HSA plan or join a trade association and you can use their group to get a health plan.
I'm a SB owner and I have an HSA plan - approx $200 a month towards insurance and $220 a month towards my HSA account. After a $2600 deductible, all else is 100%. I get to sock away tax-free that $220 a month, and treat it like an IRA if I don't use it. What's not to like about that ? I'm saving, and I have my catastrophes covered.
It's all around you if you dig a bit.
Under the adage that there's no such thing as bad press, F 9/11 forced people to pay their own money to sit in a dark theater to hear the words "George Bush" over and over.
Even if he was forced to save it (via MSA's). If he was real smart, he'd also plunk down $50 a month for catastrophic care (cancer, major accident, etc.) and use the rest for incidentals.
Only one problem with MSA's. Getting people to spend their money on preventative care (which is only a fraction of what is spent if the problem gets worse). Maybe the catastrophic insurance provider could incentivize that -- after all, it's in their best interest.
Health advice from Moore? No thanks.
I agree I would not like that in a society either. We discussed this very issue with my elderly parents and when it came time there were no heroic measures for either one of them. It was hard, but the right thing to do. The both were ready for heaven.
Plus, some care is just flat-out expensive. I forget the exact number, but it's like 80% of healthcare money is spent on the care of a patient in the last six months of their life.
when they say 45 million dont have health care they fail to menton they are lumping illegals in with it. not to mention the 20 something year old males that have better things to spend 400 dollars a month.
That being said I wonder if Michael Moores solution is nationalized health care. somehow nationalizing it would stop the corruption and make it cheaper. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
You've seen public housing? Now, imagine public health care. ugh.
Who wants to bet that hypocritical communist POS Moore not only owns Haliburton in his stock portfolio, but also owns United Healthcare.
( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
That bit about "pursuit of happiness" is not in the Constitution.
When my second daughter was born, a perfetly normal pregnancy, healthy birth, it cost us $4500. And that was with insurance.
The doctors doubled billed countless things, included visits from her peaditrician days before she was born and visits from specialists that I never saw. I called them on each and every fraudlent charge. Their response was "oh that's right, your insurance doesn't cover that." Not, "oh that's right, you never saw these people." As soon as I informed them that I had called both my insurance fraud alert line and the state fraud alter line, all those charges disappeared.
On the other hand, my insurance would not cover routine prenatal care without denying it first to see if I would object. I had to get the Rhogam shot, completely routine and yet they refused to cover it. But they covered the second one no questions. In the end, they paid everything that they originally denied, but I had to fight them for every penny. And they raise my premiums by almost $100 in the course of a year.
The insurance companies are greedy to a point that I consider it immoral. They make their money by causing harm to others. Doctors are just as bad in my mind. The only solution I want to see from the govenment however is tort reform and anti-trust laws apply to insurance companies.
Michael Moore trades HMO stock.
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