[USMCVet]

I saw a downloaded copy of "Sicko" and it's a typical Michael Moore Leftist Propaganda piece. Some parts are true (cruel, unfeeling HMOs denying coverage to get gretaer profits) and most of the rest creative fiction (superb and "free" medical treatment in Canada, France, Great Britain, and Cuba).

Mister Moore got called on the part he left out - the taxes required to support full-up socialized medicine - by Dr. Gupta and he got all quivery blubbery furious.

Something sadly amusing about an overweight guy being angrily arrogant: kind of like Oliver Hardy playing MacBeth. He somehow confuses being a mildly talented propagandist with being adequate for anything else.

[DugwayDuke]

“Some parts are true (cruel, unfeeling HMOs denying coverage to get gretaer profits)...”

To be replaced by a ‘cruel, unfeeling Government denying coverage to reduce costs’. How are we better off?

[MDspinboyredux]

He somehow confuses being a mildly talented propagandist with being adequate for anything else.

Spot-on assessment! It also made me chuckle a bit.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Keep in mind that the HMOs were initiated as quasi socialized medicine. If they are halfway a failure now, imagine what they would be like if they were part of a completely socialized healthcare system.

Guess who helped develop and implement HMOs.

Teddy Kennedy. Surprised?