tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33029962.post2482258637944850564..comments2023-10-28T08:04:25.241-05:00Comments on Long Live the Public Schools!: Review: Sicko by Michael MooreVillage Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10299021164466991478noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33029962.post-70052185744320142612007-07-02T12:02:00.000-05:002007-07-02T12:02:00.000-05:00Sicko was excellent. I feel like calling my insura...Sicko was excellent. I feel like calling my insurance company every day and asking WHY I can't go to any hospital I want. I just can't understand paying $300 a month for something, and being given such limited choices when it comes to my health and safety. Crazy.<BR/><BR/>If you want to see the arguments against this, go to <A HREF="http://www.thechiefsource.com" REL="nofollow">The Chief Source</A> comments on the Sicko post. I haven't seen a good argument for the for-profit system, but those guys are really trying. It's the old lines about personal responsibility, capitalism, and the old rumors we've heard on Fox, etc.<BR/><BR/>I always wonder why we don't expect better of our country. And why we don't have the mindset to help those who are less off because that could be us someday.terrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06996146062722029103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33029962.post-52236069371620115062007-06-30T21:49:00.000-05:002007-06-30T21:49:00.000-05:00If you go to Britain as a tourist and get sick and...If you go to Britain as a tourist and get sick and require a doctor or even hospitalization Britain's national health system (NHS)will take care of you. When you leave the doctor's office or the hospital you might look for the place to pay your bill. You won't find it. There isn't any place to pay your bill or co-payment and nobody will send you a bill later in the mail.<BR/><BR/>Even the best of our insurance plans charge us for co-payments for office calls and prescriptions, and more. In Britain you walk away free as a bird. Britain's NHS system isn't bogged down with an expensive billing system. It has jettisoned the paperwork and the postage in favor of delivering complete care to all who need it without battalions of office workers pumping out paper. They see our system as top heavy, expensive, and non-productive. The money for NHS, collected from people's taxes, pays doctors and other health workers' salaries and the upkeep of hospitals. Oddly enough, the people of Britain, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and other European countries do not resent paying for national health. They consider good health an investment, not only in the present but in the future. <BR/><BR/>Our best chance for our own NHS was in 1948 when President Truman supported it, but in those days the American Medical Association opposed it with all its power. Back then the pharmaceuticals had little clout, but the AMA's doctor members in their shortsighted way believed that NHS would rob them of their riches. Besides, it sounded like socialism, and McCarthyism helped to kill it. C'est la vie!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33029962.post-83844873168295874632007-06-30T13:48:00.000-05:002007-06-30T13:48:00.000-05:00I'm really glad to see this movie come out, the sa...I'm really glad to see this movie come out, the sad condition of health care in this country has been terrible for a very long time. Long ago we decided medical care for profit was the way to go, something every other industrial country has rejected.<BR/><BR/>It is because we are fed the line that capitalism and competition are sacred and to give up any of it is sociailism, which is the most horrible thing there is, but the truth is the American system is horrible, and not just in health care. I was glad to hear that Moore put in info from France and other countries that show not only health care but other facts of their lifestyle, as opposed to the endless obsession with greed and ambition that exists here in America.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, how can we not be obsessed with seeking wealth since we know the price of not being rich is often death? People often say it's a dog eat dog world but that is only true because conservatives have worked very hard for years to make it that way.KevinBBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00564925623767566081noreply@blogger.com