Moore blasts U.S. health-care system (SEDITIOUS LYING BLOWHARD ALERT !!!)

Toronto Sun - Canada ^ | Sunday, May 20, 2007 | Bruce Kirkland

[GMMAC]

Don't let truth get in the way larda$$:
"I hear a lot from Canadians about the long lines and whatever," Moore said. "All the studies have shown with emergencies that, if you need help, you get the help right away."
Even openly self-serving governmental surveys don't dare - for good reasons! - make this blatantly false claim - sheesh !!!

[GMMAC]

[RichInOC]

You know, I don’t believe Mikey ever did go over to Cuba. If he had, the locals would have fried him in his own fat and eaten him.

[GMMAC]

"... the locals would have fried him in his own fat and eaten him."

That would have given Cuba's vaunted commie healthcare system quite a work out - given he'd likely feed something like half the island.

Imagine just the increased cholesterol rates ??? YIKES !!!

[SteveMcKing]

"Michael Moore, M.D."

[bill1952]

Which is exactly why that Shiite Islamo minister went to everywhere else in the World for his treatments, rather than coming to America.

Oh wait...

[Snowyman]

"All the studies have shown with emergencies that, if you need help, you get the help right away.

I don't see that as a blatantly false claim . Depending on why one is there right away might be measured in hours or minutes in an ER , certainly not days or weeks.

[Cricket24]

Moore is a complete idiot!

[svcw]

Then why the h@ll doesn’t he move there if its all that great!

[Grizzled Bear]

That must be why so many Canadians come to the U.S. to pay cash for medical treatment.

[goodnesswins]

Sure, if it’s immediately life threatening....but I’ll never forget the woman I spoke with in Vancouver, BC who was SOOOOO happy her husband had his heart attack in NY State....he got better care there....quicker. It’s the long waiting, isn’t it, for surgeries and procedures....plus the kicking out of hospital of old people....(A friend’s father endured this in Alberta.)

[svcw]

Five years ago my sister lived in Canada. She started having serious “woman” problems. The doctor wanted to do a complete hysterectomy - a two year wait - two flipping years!!!
She moved to Illinois, saw a GYN and THE NEXT day they did the surgery. The next day!!
Oh, ya the health care system in Canada is sooooo great.

[mylife]

the film is highly critical of the Bush administration and Congress for turning the U.S. health-care system into a profit-making machine that

Yup No one did anything for profit prior to GWB L0L.

I heard a BBC thing on this film and even the BBC types admited that Moore glossed over the problems with socialised medicine

[bill1952]

He isn't doing it for profit kiddo. He is simply following the media's "agenda for change."

Moore is a sanctimonious idiot, and hopefully he will need care here in Florida where he can personally meet about a million Canadians a year in the waiting rooms.

[blackbart.223]

"The Canadian system has problems, Moore admitted, although he paints only a rosy picture in the film. "I hear a lot from Canadians about the long lines and whatever," Moore said. "All the studies have shown with emergencies that, if you need help, you get the help right away."

Same thing in this country. Moore should shut his mouth. I worked as a paramedic and we didn't ask questions of heart attack or trauma patients. We reacted and treated.

[alloysteel]

That help you get “right away” may not necessarily be the most effective or the right help.

The way to take care of a wounded horse on a battlefield is to shoot it right there. Merciful, but spells the end for the horse.

Medical assistance is available to ANYONE who can make it to emergency medical services, be it by ambulance or to the emergency room door. By law, they have to take you in and consider your degree of need for medical services.

And here is where it gets dicy. Because at this point you may be competing for medical services, with others who, in the judgment of the medical professionals, may have a GREATER need for medical services than you.

All is not lost. Those with sufficient resources (cash, or a third party willing to cover the expense), may purchase the services of as many medical professionals and of the sort needed for the specific medical condition they may be suffering from.

There is a serious misconception in this country that “health care” is only management of crisis situations. And that is only a very small part (but by far the most expensive part) of the overall picture of “health care”.

About 95% of “health care” is up to the individual, in that certain choices in behavior, and practice of simple preventative steps, AVOIDS most of the crisis situations.

Unfortunately, a sizable minority of people in this country never LEARN these relatively simple steps, or if they do know of them, they fail to practice what they may already know.

[mylife]

That sanctimonious idiot is getting rich selling his “victim” films

[GMMAC]

"Then why the h@ll doesn’t he move there if its all that great!"

Rigorous enforcement of Canadian laws barring the importation of over-sized foreign insect pests ... hopefully.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

In Canada, we all get equal access to high-quality health-care waiting lists. (Measured in months or years for “elective" major surgury, or MRIs and the like.)

Someone as rich as Moore need not wait in line — he can go to the U.S. for near instant treatment.

[jyro]

I don’t honor MM by reading of looking at anything he does, I know beforehand he’s full of poo poo. No point in reading any his crap.