Moore's the real sicko

Star Ledger ^ | 07.22.07 | Paul Mulshine

[Coleus]

I drove to the local multiplex the other night to see Michael Moore's latest movie. My wife came along, but she wisely choose to see the latest Harry Potter flick instead. I envied her. Michael Moore has always seemed to me to embody the es sence of the middle-class socialist as described by George Orwell. "The underlying motive of many socialists, I believe, is simply a hy pertrophied sense of order," Orwell wrote. "The present state of affairs offends them not because it causes misery, still less because it makes freedom impossible, but because it is untidy."

That certainly seems to be the case with Moore. He has no real empathy with the forlorn characters he puts up on the screen. They are just vehicles for his enduring urge to have the government run things. And in Moore's world, the government always runs things better.

The supposed high point of "Sicko" is a trip to Cuba he makes with some rescue workers who claim various injuries from responding to the 9/11 attacks. After a quick tour of Havana, he trots them off to a gleaming hospital where they receive top-notch medical care. Moore assures us that the care is exactly the same as a typical Cuban would receive.

Not quite. Anthony Boadle, the Havana correspondent for Reuters, reported that the hospital featured in the film was "Cuba's flagship hospital with a view of the Caribbean sea, a sharp contrast to many Cuban hospitals that are crumbling, badly lit, and which lack equipment and medicines."

[dbwz]

The big difference between other countries and the United States is not that they have free health coverage. It's that they have mandatory health coverage.

And there you have it. It's mandated, meaning you have no way to opt out. And it's most certainly not free, because you end up sending yet another chunk of your paycheck to Washington so that someone else can decide what's best for you and your family. Maybe that's what the unsuspecting public needs to hear more about.

[hsalaw]

I heard this movie is tanking. Trying to convince Americans that a third world country like Cuba does health care better than we do is a losing proposition.

[ashtanga]

If I were a mover and shaker, I would have told Michael Moore: I’ll support your new movie if you agree, in writing, to go to Cuba for your next surgery, under an assumed name. The surgery must be serious, vital, and touchy.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

Well he (Moore) is after all on the cover.

[LeoWindhorse]

Michael Moore , appearing on Chris Matthews Hardball ,
looked alot like Jabba the Hut

[txzman]

“If I were a mover and shaker, I would have told Michael Moore: I’ll support your new movie if you agree, in writing, to go to Cuba for your next surgery, under an assumed name. The surgery must be serious, vital, and touchy.”

I like this idea! LOL

[chief_bigfoot]

I saw Dennis Miller on Fox recently. He had a great line about the propagandamentary. “Moore’s movie Sicko is doing so bad that the Supreme Court recently ruled that it was ok to yell “Fire” in the theater that is showing it”.

[Brilliant]

[never4get]

Michale Moore = Fat moronic idiot

[never4get]

Correction, bad spelling

Michael Moore = fat moronic idiot