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[Michael "Fatso from Flint"]Moore film attacks U.S. health care
al Reuters ^ | May 19, 2007 | Mike Collett-White

Posted on 05/20/2007 4:57:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Bluebird Singing
“exemplary care at no cost” according to Moore.

Next time Moore visits his doctor he needs to ask the doc what he's going to like best about working for the Federal Gubmint. Of the nine Doctors I've asked this question, one of which I use and the others I associate with, not a single one has said they will continue to practice medicine if the Federal Gubmint takes over the health care system.

The bottom line is if health care is socialize, you simply will not get the best and brightest to pursue careers in medicine. That is a fact......

21 posted on 05/20/2007 6:50:43 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I understand you can get free health care in Zimbabwe too. Well, it might not be exactly free. It might cost you a nickel or two.


22 posted on 05/20/2007 6:50:52 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Of all that I have accomplished, the thing that I am proudest of is that I have a good heart. ~Oprah)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I finally established a Health Savings Account, and I gotta say, I'm at last getting a decent break on health care, and better care than I've had in years. I choose my own treatments plans and providers. Dental concentration this year. Maybe Lasik next year? Messed-up my knee with tennis. See that chiropractor, and it's all tax deductible.

Don't we have Ted Kennedy to blame for employer-sponsored health care to begin with? What a losing concept. Guess Moore wouldn't want to dig too deep into that one. It would ruin his thesis.

Take control of your own health care. There's no substitute.

23 posted on 05/20/2007 6:51:11 AM PDT by GVnana (Former Alias: GVgirl)
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To: avacado
Understand the mindset of buffoons like Moore and his minions.

When it comes to health care, there's no WORSE place in the world than the good ol U S of A.

There's no worse place in the world than US when it comes to warmongering, oppressing the downtrodden, responding to natural disasters, polluting the environment or funding the "arts."

To them, the U S as a nation is just one giant festering boil on the globe.

Of course, any fair-minded observer with an IQ above room temperature would find these assertions laughable.

The only thing, to them, that is admirable about America is its surplus of morons willing to spend 8 bucks or more to lap up this drivel for two hours of their miserable lives.

24 posted on 05/20/2007 7:10:48 AM PDT by daler (The best things in life...aren't "things.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are 2 healthcare systems in Cuba. One is for government officials and foreigners. This system has fairly modern hospitals and are well maintained. Moore’s traitorous buddies no doubt went to one of these.

The other system is for the rest of Cuba’s people. These hospitals are typical 3rd world cesspools.

You can see photos here...

http://therealcuba.com/Page10.htm


25 posted on 05/20/2007 7:14:03 AM PDT by navyguy (We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he believes it is driven by the greed of lawyers and insurance companies, then I agree.


26 posted on 05/20/2007 7:28:51 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

Click on the link in post #25 and see if you’d trade places with the people in Cuba.


27 posted on 05/20/2007 7:31:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What does that have to do with what drives the U.S. healthcare system?

Know what a strawman is?


28 posted on 05/20/2007 7:41:33 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

Michael Moore hatched the straw man, then. He claims that people in Cuba receive better treatment than Americans.
For all it’s faults, we have the best medical system in the world; evidenced by the fact that world leaders, millionaires and elites almost always come here for treatment of major illnesses and injuries.


29 posted on 05/20/2007 7:51:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Tick....tick...tick....

14:50 and counting, Mr. Moore.

30 posted on 05/20/2007 7:51:17 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Hardastarboard

I think that the hospitals in Maine treat more Canadians than locals.


31 posted on 05/20/2007 7:52:41 AM PDT by wbill
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you simply will not get the best and brightest to pursue careers in medicine. That is a fact......

What, the folks at the local DMV and Social Security office are NOT the best and the brightest? Surely you must be joking.

In fact, while I was standing in line at the DMV the other day, I bet I talked for an hour or more about this very topic to the other person in the line.

32 posted on 05/20/2007 7:56:24 AM PDT by wbill
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For all it’s faults, we have the best medical system in the world; evidenced by the fact that world leaders, millionaires and elites almost always come here for treatment of major illnesses and injuries.

One of our local HMOs is in trouble for patient dumping. Not that we have a two-tier system or anything.

Then, of course, there was the recent dust up about conditions in building 18 at Walter Reed:

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses. from the Washington Post

33 posted on 05/20/2007 8:43:03 AM PDT by lucysmom
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Well, we know the Washington Post wouldn’t exaggerate conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to try to malign the current GOP administration, like they did the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush, Sr. White Houses. No, Siree!
34 posted on 05/20/2007 9:01:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: Kid Shelleen
I wonder if this movie will ever be shown in Cuba. I bet a lot of the Cubans will wonder why they are not getting “exemplary” healt care.

From a couple of Cuban refugees descriptions of Castro's Cuba to myself:

If you possessed a DVD of this type, the police would haul you out of your house. Never to be seen again. If you consorted with a foreigner on your own -- such as Moore doing these interviews -- you will be hauled out of your house by the police. Never to be seen again.

35 posted on 05/20/2007 9:33:48 AM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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"The only thing, to them, that is admirable about America is its surplus of morons willing to spend 8 bucks or more to lap up this drivel for two hours of their miserable lives."

How very true. This liberal woman friend of mine, I asked her to show me the pipeline that Halliburton supposedly built in Afghanistan that is the reason that Moore said in his movie F9/11 that Bush and Cheney started the war in Afghanistan. She looked like a deer stuck in the headlights.

I then asked her why Al Gore's movie says that sea levels are going to rise 20 feet in the 21st century and the IPCC report only gives an extreme of 23 inches. She told me I don't understand the principles of global warming. That coming from a non college educated liberal to me, who holds degrees in computer science and mathematics. These people truly cannot think for themselves.

36 posted on 05/20/2007 9:34:25 AM PDT by avacado
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To: wbill
I think that the hospitals in Maine treat more Canadians than locals.

Hospitals in Ohio make big business of performing heart catheritizations, heart bypasses and joint replacement surgeries on wealthy Canadian patients.

37 posted on 05/20/2007 9:38:50 AM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: txzman

He is overweight so he would get put on the botom of all lists for healthcare.


38 posted on 05/20/2007 4:02:14 PM PDT by Holicheese (I love shrimp and grits.)
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To: Ghengis
I can't speak to the procedures that are performed in Maine, but Eastern Maine Medical in Bangor is a massive facility, with (at least when I lived there) a huge cardiac wing.

Granted, it serves a large part of the State - but Northern Maine doesn't have *that* many people in it.

39 posted on 05/21/2007 6:24:32 AM PDT by wbill
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