Michael Moore's 'Sicko' tells of broken U.S. health industry

by Brian White (Subscribe to Brian White's posts)
May 11th 2007 11:53AM

Is the health care system in the U.S. substandard to a communist nation's health care system? controversial filmmaker Michael Moore will examine that question when hid "Sicko" film is released this year.

Moore took patients from the U.S. to Cuba (he's under investigation for that) to prove that they could receive better (and less expensive) health care outside the U.S. than inside it.

While I don't think any country's medical system is advanced as the one Americans enjoy, access to that system and the money needed to take advantage of it (when needed) is out of reach for millions of people. Due to that, I'll probably watch Moore's film with a scrutinizing eye but with an open mind as well. Will you?

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JT 5-13-2007 @ 11:24AM

"While I don't think any country's medical system is advanced as the one Americans enjoy".
You seriously need to travel more, say, to Scandinavia (any country out there will do) or The Netherlands.
Nevertheless, a country can have all the medical gizmos in the world, it is still utterly ineffective, outrageous and 19th century to limit its access to a mere fraction of the population.

Dr BLT 5-15-2007 @ 2:45AM

I predicted more insanity from Michael Moore back in 2004 when I released this nationally-aired song:

FarenHYPE 9/11
Dr BLT
http://www.drblt.net/music/farenhype.mp3

(BTW it was written, recorded and released months prior to Dick Morris's DVD of the same title.)

After not hearing from Michael for awhile, I started asking (in reference to his insanity):

Is it Over Yet?
Dr BLT
http://www.drblt.net/music/Over.mp3

Apparently, it was not. Now I believe it's time to write the new one-song sountrack to "Sicko." I'll keep you posted.

Dr BLT
Humble King of Blog n Roll

JR 6-21-2007 @ 9:08AM

Well.. In Spain (and that's not Mexico) health care is for free. You can get treated of cancer, have a heart transplant, or simply be treated from a broken leg, all for free. It might not be perfect, there might be queues (specially for stuff less urgent than a heart transplant, and mainly because some people abuse of the system), but you never have to worry about being rich enough to be operated of whatever bad thing you happen to have.