Comments on: Sicko one-sided? It can’t be . . . http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/sicko-one-sided-it-cant-be.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/sicko-one-sided-it-cant-be.html/comment-page-1#comment-76751 Anonymous Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:09:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/sicko-one-sided-it-cant-be.html#comment-76751 The links got truncated. For the London Times:<br/><br/>http://tinyurl.com/26u9ha<br/>http://tinyurl.com/28oxdr The links got truncated. For the London Times:

http://tinyurl.com/26u9ha
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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/sicko-one-sided-it-cant-be.html/comment-page-1#comment-76750 Anonymous Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/sicko-one-sided-it-cant-be.html#comment-76750 The New Yorker on Moore’s “Sicko”:<br/>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/07/02/070702crci_cinema_denby<br/>“….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……”<br/><br/>What makes Moore think that after-hours care doesn’t fail in other countries?<br/><br/>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1838285.ece<br/><br/>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1843039.ece<br/><br/>What makes Moore think healthcare is equal in other countries?<br/><br/>UK “Postcode Lottery”:<br/><br/>http://www.politics.co.uk/issueoftheday/health/cancer/nhs-postcode-lottery-$447113$447113.htm<br/><br/>Germany “Zwei-Klassen Medizin”<br/><br/>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweiklassenmedizin<br/><br/>What makes Moore think “experimental” medicines are not denied in other countries?<br/><br/>http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2007/03/tale-of-two-cancers.html 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

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/sicko-one-sided-it-cant-be.html/comment-page-1#comment-76736 Anonymous Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/sicko-one-sided-it-cant-be.html#comment-76736 Remember his earlier creation "Roger and Me", where he went around trying to speak with Roger Smith of General Motors.<br/><br/>Moore had actually met Roger Smith on more than one occasion. Somehow the meetings did not end up in the movie, imagine that.....<br/><br/>So I'm not surprised by Sicko. He lied in "Roger and Me". He lied in "Farenheit 911". Why should "Sicko" be any different? 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?

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