More Sicko rebuttal:
Why then, is national health insurance in other countries as popular as Moore says it is? One reason is that people do not realize how much they pay for it in taxes. Even mediocre care looks good if you think it is free.
A second reason is that doctors in other countries often don’t tell their patients their care is being rationed. Instead, they say, “There’s nothing more we can do.”
A third reason is that most people are healthy. Relative to U.S. levels of provision, countries with national health insurance routinely underprovide to the seriously ill and overprovide to patients with minor ailments. Thus, the scene where patients in Canadian waiting rooms are asked how long they had to wait, and they all reply with times under an hour.
