I dunno. Michael Moore strikes me as someone who, as I said before, does have a lot of good points...but I think he's also capable of pulling out all of the half-truths and propaganda stops he can in order to make those points. Things got awfully twisty in Sicko.
True, we don't have universal healthcare and we need to either have some version of it or make reasonable healthcare more available in some other way. But I don't believe for a minute that countries that do have universal healthcare are skipping through some la-la-la medical fairyland where everything is just fantastic.
The reform I'd really like to see is for all of the states to follow Massachusetts' example and make it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against someone with childhood cancer. I was born with my cancer and, as far as insurance companies were concerned, I had a lifelong "pre-existing condition" and had to either jump through their hoops (at one point going a YEAR WITHOUT TREATMENT) or not have insurance at all. Long story shorter, insurance companies have fucked with my entire life, up to and including having to leave medical school to work fulltime and keep insurance.
So it's not like I don't have a big problem with the insurance companies.
I have talked to one Canadian about the universal health care they have up there. She said it sucks. BAD. Yea everyone can get treatment.... But by everyone they mean EVERYONE. You break your arm? Have fun waiting in line all day with that broken arm while you wait for your turn. She said she was happy to pay for faster medical service.
Insurance companies are the devil! I work with an older lady who has some problem with her knee. It constantly hurts her and she has to go in twice a year and have it drained or something just so she can continue to walk. They consider it elective and she has to pay for it all herself. Other than that and the fact that she is in her 60s, she is actually in rather good health. This kind of thing happens all over the place all the time with insurance companies. Most people would be better off just putting their money in a savings account.
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You break your arm? Have fun waiting in line all day with that broken arm while you wait for your turn. She said she was happy to pay for faster medical service.
I'm on the do not insure list. So yeah, I would gladly wait in line with a broken arm instead of having my brother try to snap it back in place and make me a splint based based of a scene in a Die Hard movie.