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- mrdobolina
Anyone seen it over the weekend?
- bulletfactory0
haven't seen it yet, really want to though - they're discussing it on NPR
- mrdobolina0
It's pretty eye opening.
- OSFA0
I want to.
- lvl_130
i want to see it...i heard it's very michael moore 1-sided tweaking though...
not that that surprised me.
- myobie0
i heard you can watch it on google video, but i don't want to sit at my computer for that long
- lvl_130
thanks dobs. very interesting/scary indeed.
- material-10
saw it. Very sad indeed.
fuck a nixon and a clinton
- mrdobolina0
Those recordings of Nixon were insane.
- material-10
and those medical directors? evil fuckwits.
and to think we could have universal care for only 20 bil a year
- woodyBatts0
Saw it this weekend. Very good, and I am not the biggest fan of Moore flicks, but this hits close to home.
About 12 years ago my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and moved to England ( my step father is british ) to receive healthcare, she had very minimal health insurance. Fortunately her treatment was less than a year long, and not that aggressive, she caught it early.
- VectorMasked0
I watched it about 2 weeks ago on the internetts. It was pretty good I must say. You almost start feeling sorry for the Americans that are already pretty screwed no matter what social class they belong in. I thought about all the medical problems my family has suffered like cancer, endless injuries, surgeries, etc... and how lucky we were to have insurance and how it saved our butts. Amazing that in my country Mexico we all have ok free health care and with insurance you are guaranteed an excellent care and treatment.
I give it a 2 thumbs up
- dirtydesign0
I saw it opening night. Michael Moore actually showed up and gave a speech. Good flic, but his movies are 1 sided.
They don't tell u that Canada passed a bill in 1995 allowing private healthcare, due to overcrowded hospitals. Theres a lot more to the story than Moore portrays.
- mrdobolina0
of course it is 1-sided.
Sometimes 1-side is correct though, ya know?
- MrD0
he aint no AL Gore
- -sputnik-0
yeah dirty...i was reading about this all weekend and although what he portrays is 95% true, there is a lot he is omitting.
what i do think it'll do is open up a dialogue about this problematic system. the others he talks about aren't perfect either but there's a lot we can learn from there and something needs to be done
- M0NEYCIDE0
they passed a bill for private health care for the money. the biggest factor contributing to any over crowding or waiting times is lack of funding from the cheap skate government and even these arn't a serious issue as two teir advocates would make you beleive. way more people die or get worse from simply not being able to afford it in the usa than any waiting list would cause in canada.
- mrdobolina0
The health care industry always says that socialized medecine would take the patient's choice out of the equation.
There are 50 million people in this country that have no health care coverage, many of them little kids.
What health care options do they have?
- -sputnik-0
not only that, but you can have basic universal health care as well as give people the choice to upgrade or go elsewhere if they choose to or can afford to. people think that universal care and individual choices are mutually exclusive, which they're not
- mrdobolina0
Exactly. when they changed the bankruptcy laws a while back, blew my mind also.
Fact is, majority of the people that declared bankruptcy did it because of a medical tragedy.
This country is feeding on itself.