Nothing is crazier than incessantly calling health care “free”. The USA Today with an Sicko op-ed:
Sicko uses omission, exaggeration and cinematic sleight of hand to make its points. In criticizing politicians, insurers and drug makers, it says little about the high quality of U.S. care. In lauding Canada, Great Britain, France and Cuba, it largely avoids mention of the long lines and high taxes that accompany most government-run systems.“Obviously, it’s not free,” says Michael Cannon of the libertarian Cato Institute. Those countries “have unleashed demand, and they’re capping supply. When you do that, you get lines.”
Related posts:
- The New Yorker on Sicko
- Sicko: Do I hear bingo?
- Sicko: Socialism in a capitalist society?
- Sicko: Real health care in Cuba
- The myth of Cuban health care
- UK: What Sicko doesn’t tell you
- Michael Moore’s Sicko
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Remember his earlier creation “Roger and Me”, where he went around trying to speak with Roger Smith of General Motors.
Moore had actually met Roger Smith on more than one occasion. Somehow the meetings did not end up in the movie, imagine that…..
So I’m not surprised by Sicko. He lied in “Roger and Me”. He lied in “Farenheit 911″. Why should “Sicko” be any different?
The New Yorker on Moore’s “Sicko”:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/07/02/070702crci_cinema_denby
“….The movie [Sicko] is an attack on the American health-care system, and it starts out strongly, with Moore interviewing families who have been betrayed or neglected by H.M.O.s and insurance companies. A man whose life might have been saved by a bone-marrow transplant died when he was refused “experimental” treatment. A feverish baby died when her mother, rather than taking her to a hospital run by her insurer, Kaiser Permanente, rushed her to the nearest emergency room, where they were turned away……”
What makes Moore think that after-hours care doesn’t fail in other countries?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1838285.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1843039.ece
What makes Moore think healthcare is equal in other countries?
UK “Postcode Lottery”:
http://www.politics.co.uk/issueoftheday/health/cancer/nhs-postcode-lottery-$447113$447113.htm
Germany “Zwei-Klassen Medizin”
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweiklassenmedizin
What makes Moore think “experimental” medicines are not denied in other countries?
http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2007/03/tale-of-two-cancers.html
The links got truncated. For the London Times:
http://tinyurl.com/26u9ha
http://tinyurl.com/28oxdr
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