Michael Moore’s “Sicko”
For those who don’t trust Mr. Moore—and have had the luck to not yet been an insurance companies’ scapegoat to save money, do your own research; I have—and I do NOT mean listening to the falsifications found in mainstream TV or Congress, both bought by big business—the biggest of which are the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies. We have the highest infant mortality rate of any industrial countries; we’re even behind several 2nd and 3rd world countries. We have the highest mortality rate in every age group vs. the top 14 countries, and we pay more and get less for our money now. Our hospitals are dumping people who cannot pay on the streets rather than treat them, and even those with insurance are being denied healthcare so that the companies can post record profits. And are we so easily frightened by the word “socialized†or “rationing†that we turn into jelly and stop thinking? We have socialization in the US that we take for granted: unemployment, Medicare, public education, etc., although all of these have been under siege in attempts to privatize them for several decades, and yes, they’re now a wreck. We are the ONLY 1st world country without universal healthcare—have we become we so callused and ignorant to not see that our capital is not money or machines but people, all people, then surely we no longer deserve the Statue of Liberty.
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