Posted on 06/19/2007 7:29:05 PM PDT by Nachum
Michael Moore will be in Sacramento on Tuesday to testify before a state Senate committee, lead a rally for universal health care with the California Nurses Association, and, of course, promote his new movie "Sicko," which opens nationwide June 29.
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Expose Moore’s lies or his ignorance or both. Info above collected to help challenge his propagandized documentary on Cuba's Health Care system.
All of his movies tend to ignore many relevant and prevalent facts. Dollars “are” his middle name.
If one were to look up Asshat in any modern dictionary, Michael Moore would be the picture at hand.
Michael Moore will be in Sacramento on Tuesday to testify before a state Senate committee, lead a rally for universal health care with the California Nurses Association, and, of course, promote his new movie “Sicko,” which opens nationwide June 29.
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Moore ignores the positive side of American health care. For all its problems, the United States still provides the highest quality health care in the world. Eighteen of the last 25 winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine are either U.S. citizens or work here.
With no price controls, free-market U.S. medicine provides the incentives that lead to innovation breakthroughs in new drugs and other medical technologies. U.S. companies have developed half of all the major new medicines introduced worldwide over the past 20 years.
In fact, Americans have played a key role in 80 percent of the most important medical advances of the past 30 years.
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Moore implies that people without health insurance don’t receive health care. In reality, most do. Hospitals are legally obligated to provide care regardless of ability to pay, and while physicians do not face the same legal requirements, few are willing to deny treatment because a patient lacks insurance.
Treatment for the uninsured may well mean financial hardship, but by and large they do receive care.
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He downplays waiting lists in Canada, suggesting they are no more than inconveniences. He interviews apparently healthy Canadians who claim they have no problem getting care.
Somehow, Moore failed to find any of the nearly 800,000 Canadians who are not so lucky. Nor apparently did he have time to interview Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin, who wrote in a 2005 decision striking down part of Canada’s universal care law that many Canadians waiting for treatment suffer chronic pain and that “patients die while on the waiting list.”
when that fat sack needs his first bypass, how much you want to bet he doesn’t run to Cuba to get it done.
He will get it here.
The US health care system has done a great job for me when I’ve needed it. I am not complaining.
If it were not for the medical breakthroughs made possible by the United States health-care system, there would be nothing for the rest of the World to give away.
We live in an age of medical miracles. Those miracles were accomplished for profit. And Michael Moore whines about it.
What’s good with the system, is that my daughter was diagnosed with appendicitis (it wasn’t severe yet, it was very early and the symptoms were vague), had it removed, and was home within 24 hours.
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