Have you seen the film? I can bet you that both Shemp and Dixon haven't so they don't know what they're talking about but then that's nothing new. :-D
Jason Spock wrote: > > > This is interesting, Amigo. > > Fidel 'bugbear' Castro often trumpets the superiority of the Cuban > health-care system over other countries including US..!! > > Maybe Fidel knows that his country is rotting and just playing a > political game to stay in power.?? > > ShempMcGurk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:45:03 -0000 > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sicko > > > SICKO > boxofficemojo. com > U.S. Release Date: June 22, 2007 > Distributor: Lionsgate > Director: Michael Moore > Running Time: 2 hours and 3 minutes > MPAA Rating: PG-13 (brief strong language) > > Medical Profession Distorted in Emotionalist Diatribe > by Scott Holleran > > The Bill O'Reilly of pseudo-documentarie s, self-promotional blowhard > Michael Moore, presents Sicko, a distortion of reality from start to > finish that purports to address a crucial issue: health care. > > Having declined to review Moore's smash, Fahrenheit 9/11, and having > missed his anti-business Roger and Me and anti-gun Bowling for > Columbine, this writer was prepared to laugh, or at least chuckle, at > the mess that constitutes today's mongrel health care system in > America (and I've covered health policy for newspapers and non- > profits). But this hooey, billed as a comedy, is as funny as a heart > attack. > > Moore covers health care like Fox News covers religion and the war in > Iraq—without providing essential facts. He starts with the claim that > 18,000 people die each year from a lack of health insurance, an > idiotic assertion. People die. They die of cancer, heart disease and > other causes. Individuals have a right to choose not to buy insurance > (an idea governors Mitt Romney, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ed Rendell > reject)—and that means they choose to live without securing a means > of paying for catastrophic illness. > > Taking personal responsibility is not among Moore's values. Neither > is disclosing whether he met with communist dictator Fidel Castro or > Cuba's Communist Party officials to obtain special treatment for > those Americans he illegally brought to the island dictatorship for > medical treatment, a low act of depravity, even for Moore, who tacks > on a singularly offensive display of communist propaganda. How many > enslaved Cubans died so that his pre-selected participants could get > cheaper drugs and a new set of teeth? This is a country where kids > are stripped of their milk ration at the age of six. > > That the dishonest Cuba portion—morally repugnant to anyone who > recognizes man's rights—provides Sicko's climax ought to tip the > movie's theme that a society ruled by force is acceptable; the ends > justify the means. That there is no right to speech, travel or > association in Cuba, let alone the right to make—or see—a movie, is > lost on Moore and his sick bunch. > > Tracked by overbearing music, emotionalist pitches—a diseased couple > with six kids is shocked they can't afford health care in their elder > years yet we never learn about how they chose to spend their money > and what treatment decisions they've made—and a moral premise that > health care is a right, Sicko grates on and on, neither making an > argument or an especially interesting or amusing point. > > Key assertions are false. For example, when Moore blasts Health > Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)—a term created by a leftist college > professor, which Moore does not disclose—using the Nixon > administration' s HMO Act, he conceals that the bill's primary sponsor > was a liberal Democrat: Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. That's > right: the leftist intellectuals railing against HMOs are the > bastards who created them—by force, requiring that American > businesses include HMOs in employee health coverage. > > You'd never know that from Sicko, which also fails to mention that > every world leader from King Hussein to Boris Yeltsin sought medical > treatment in the world's most productive nation with the best quality > health care: the United States of America. > > Moore is on firmer ground when he points out that socialized medicine > was expanded by America's current president, a devout Christian who > agrees that health care is a right, though Moore doesn't describe it > that way. > > The fact—despite manipulative flashes of socialized medicine in > Britain, Canada and France—is that, for all intents and purposes, > America already has socialized medicine (that is the proper term for > government intervention in the medical profession), and it's > typically instituted by conservatives. Medicare—subsidized care for > every American over age 65—is not capitalism. Moore ignores this self- > evident truth and the possibility that government-controll ed health > care is impractical because it is immoral. > > Moore is no more interested in exploring morality than are the > conservatives who shoved Medicare drug subsidies down our throats > (emptying our wallets), leaving Sicko holding up one of L.A.'s worst > hospitals—the dreaded government-run King/Drew medical center—as a > model, harming his subjects with invasive camera crews and praising > the idea that, in Moore's words, "one guy changes everyone's mind." > We've seen that type of political system, dictatorship, in countries > like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, where medicine was controlled > by the state, everyone supposedly had health care—and no one had > rights. > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Shape Yahoo! in your own image. 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