Many of you will be aware of the new Mike Moore propaganda, "Sicko", which slates the US health system. This is the best and most succinct response I have seen yet.
While denouncing America's health care system, Michael Moore lauds Great Britain's free National Health Service (NHS). But for free hospital care, Britons pay an awfully high price, says Helen Evans, director of Nurses for Reform.
After nearly six decades of attempting to make socialized medicine work, the NHS is in a perilous state:
* There are nearly one million British patients on waiting lists for treatment, and 200,000 Britons are currently waiting merely to get on NHS waiting lists.
* As a result, each year the NHS cancels around 100,000 operations because of shortages.
* Further, when patients are finally admitted to state hospitals, more than 10 percent of patients contract infections and illnesses that they did not have prior to arrival.
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3 comments:
Nobody can take Michael Moore seriously. He's nothing but an opportunistic (entrepreneurial!) guy who has made millions out of gullible people. This movie continues the trend.
Leave that left-winger alone and do not pay any attention to him (let alone see his latest concoction).
Am I missing something...the most cutting thing that can be said about Sicko is "yeah, but Britain's NHS is crap". I am really not sure how that's any kind of response to fundamental issue about American healthcare. I've not seen the film, so I'll reserve judgement on its merits. But I am astounded that the most cutting thing you could find is pointing to someone saying, "yeah but he's wrong we're actually really crap too". Isn't there something more substantive to say about the subject matter???
crasster - When you do see it try not barfing as Michael Moore goes to Cuba and shows that even they have better health care than the US. Of course, he goes in with the VIPs and not the "regular care" that ordinary Cubans have to live with.
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