Always good entertainment, Michael Moore has released his newest documentary/propaganda Sicko onto DVD.
In this (let's just call it a movie), Michael Moore visits several places in America and shows you how bad the medical system is. It is full of anecdotal evidence that our system is broken. For example, a woman was charged for an ambulance ride to the hospital after an accident because the ambulance ride wasn't pre-approved. He's right! The entire system is broken because of this incident!
He does focus on several people that helped with the World Trade Center rescue on 9/11 (or 11/9 if you're not from America). It was sad to see the conditions of some of these people and to learn that the government is not helping them. One victim was not an official rescue team member, just someone who jumped in to help. He now has chronic pulmonary problems and no one will cover his medical expenses. This is a crying shame.
Moore then travels to Cuba with some of the people that are having medical problems and shows us the wonderful medical system they have there. Inhalers only cost 15 cents and most of the medical care is FREE.
Moore then travels to Great Britain and France. In GB he searches a hospital for the cashier's office and constantly asks people how much they expect to pay for their medical service. The answer is always that it is FREE.
In France he dines with some people and they discuss maternity leave and how it is 6 months by law and you can take 12 months if you want to without pay. The government also provides discounted daycare and a nanny will come to your house for FREE. The nanny will also do your laundry and cook your food - for FREE.
Now, anyone that is a free thinker and took any type of economics class knows that nothing is FREE. These people are paying for their services through taxes. Michael Moore fails to mention this - even once. My opinion is that if people are happy paying higher taxes for these services, then that is their right. But Moore, being disingenuous as always, mentions none of this.
Is Michael Moore advocating socialized medicine in the United States? He sure is! He attacks the Bush administration, the Nixon administration, and the Reagan administration and their deals with the devils - pharmaceutical and health insurance companies. In fairness, he does mention that Hillary tried to socialize medicine during her husband's administration, but big $$$ made her shut up.
I do enjoy watching Michael Moore movies. I like to see what the liberal left is thinking. His movies are entertaining, even if the truth is highly distorted. I give this movie 4 stars. It does have some valid points and the movie kept my attention the entire time. I wouldn't spend money to buy this movie, otherwise you're supporting him. Instead I recommend getting this movie from your local free library!
In this (let's just call it a movie), Michael Moore visits several places in America and shows you how bad the medical system is. It is full of anecdotal evidence that our system is broken. For example, a woman was charged for an ambulance ride to the hospital after an accident because the ambulance ride wasn't pre-approved. He's right! The entire system is broken because of this incident!
He does focus on several people that helped with the World Trade Center rescue on 9/11 (or 11/9 if you're not from America). It was sad to see the conditions of some of these people and to learn that the government is not helping them. One victim was not an official rescue team member, just someone who jumped in to help. He now has chronic pulmonary problems and no one will cover his medical expenses. This is a crying shame.Moore then travels to Cuba with some of the people that are having medical problems and shows us the wonderful medical system they have there. Inhalers only cost 15 cents and most of the medical care is FREE.
Moore then travels to Great Britain and France. In GB he searches a hospital for the cashier's office and constantly asks people how much they expect to pay for their medical service. The answer is always that it is FREE.
In France he dines with some people and they discuss maternity leave and how it is 6 months by law and you can take 12 months if you want to without pay. The government also provides discounted daycare and a nanny will come to your house for FREE. The nanny will also do your laundry and cook your food - for FREE.
Now, anyone that is a free thinker and took any type of economics class knows that nothing is FREE. These people are paying for their services through taxes. Michael Moore fails to mention this - even once. My opinion is that if people are happy paying higher taxes for these services, then that is their right. But Moore, being disingenuous as always, mentions none of this.
Is Michael Moore advocating socialized medicine in the United States? He sure is! He attacks the Bush administration, the Nixon administration, and the Reagan administration and their deals with the devils - pharmaceutical and health insurance companies. In fairness, he does mention that Hillary tried to socialize medicine during her husband's administration, but big $$$ made her shut up.
I do enjoy watching Michael Moore movies. I like to see what the liberal left is thinking. His movies are entertaining, even if the truth is highly distorted. I give this movie 4 stars. It does have some valid points and the movie kept my attention the entire time. I wouldn't spend money to buy this movie, otherwise you're supporting him. Instead I recommend getting this movie from your local free library!
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