The great health care debate has been raging in the United States for several weeks now, but one important voice on the matter has been strangly silent.
Sicko
Writer/producer Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by our health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. The consequences for the individual subscribers range from bankruptcy to the unnecessary deaths of loved ones.
Moore then looks at universal free health care systems in Canada, France, Britain, and Cuba, debunking all the fears (lower quality of care, poorer compensation for doctors, big-government bureaucracy) that have been used to dissuade Americans from establishing such a system here.
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Has anyone seen or heard from Michael Moore, the award winning writer and director of perhaps the single greatest statement on the ills of the U. S. health care system?
His movie, Sicko, debunked "all the fears" associated with national health care in other countries. Yet, it is those very fears that the GOPers, Blue Dog Democrats, and medical industry, are using (among other things such as cost)to again crush our drive for health care reform.
I would have thought that this battle would have been right up Michael Moore's alley. Yet I haven't seen him on any discussion shows or heard him on any radio programs, talking about this subject. Maybe I've missed it.
But, in any event, even if he has been doing his part, I sure wish he'd become more vocal in this debate. We could use his help.