Why did Moore not say in 'Sicko' there are two types of "free" healthcare in Cuba, one for the rich and tourist and another for the masses? Moore's whole premise is flawed, there is no such thing as "free" healthcare. Where does Moore get the idea seniors get "Free" healthcare? Why does he not point our that Medicare will go bankrupt if billions of more dollars are not infused into the system when all the boomers hit 65? Someone has to pay the piper. Where will to money come from if the government takes over the healthcare? What will happen to the availability? Wherever private enterprise competes with government, private enterprise always does it better and at less cost. The fact is the much maligned HMOs provide more services at lower cost than Medicare. I. E. UPS etall do a much better job than USPS etc..
One of my grand children was in an auto accident in a county with "free" healthcare.
The driver received a broken nose that was set without local anesthetic. He want to a doctor when he returned to the US and needed surgery to have it proper repaired. The doctor asked if he set his nose himself?
She was not badly hurt, only sorta beat-up a bit. She was thus a low priority. She was placed in an un-air-conditioned thirty bed ward, with people with all sorts of diseases. The only way she got help from the two nurses, that monitored the ward during two 12 hour shift, was to befriend one of them. The bed covering was only changed every three days. The locals brought clean stuff from home for their relitives. She never was seen by a doctor after she was admitted. As the old adage states, "What value has anything that is free?' ;)
mike
The American government isn't afraid to hand out free health care.
> Senior citizens get it. Veterans get it. As SiCKO shows you, even the
> detainees at Guantanamo Bay get it.
>
> So, too, do our federal elected officials. It doesn't matter if they
> are Republicans or Democrats, young or old, healthy or sick -- they
> are entitled to free, government-provided health insurance. They don't
> have to worry about being able to pay for medical help -- even if many
> of their constituents do.
>
> When Senator Sherrod Brown was running for a seat in the House of
> Representatives over 10 years ago, he saw something wrong with this.
> He pledged not to accept his free government health care until
> everyone in the United States had the same luxury. (He's still
> waiting.)
>
> Brown reasoned that politicians should have the same privileges as
> those they represent. I know a lot of the Democrats running for
> President understand this principle. Monday night during their YouTube
> debate, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich,
> Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson all pledged to work for the minimum
> wage should they be elected president -- to show that they're in touch
> with the plight of everyday Americans, and to make sure they are
> personally invested in making sure the minimum wage in this country is
> a livable one. Good for them.
>
> Now, candidates, how about giving up your health care too? If elected
> president, you and your family will be entitled to free government
> health care, courtesy of the fine doctors at the National Naval
> Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. But nearly 50 million of your
> constituents will go without any medical care at all -- and 18,000 of
> them will die during your first year in office simply because they
> lack health insurance. As the head of the government, how can you take
> advantage of its health care services, but deny it to so many
> citizens?
>
> I am calling on each presidential candidate to pledge to refuse their
> free government health care until every person in this country also
> has it. I want every candidate who said they'd work for the minimum
> wage as president to work uninsured, too, until health care is
> universal. And I want the other candidates to join them. (Yes, I'm
> looking at you, too, Republicans. I know you can afford to do it.) >
> During Monday night's interactive debate, I submitted this exact
> challenge on YouTube, just like everyone else. CNN didn't choose it --
> maybe Dr. Gupta was making the selections? Anyway, I am issuing it
> here. All candidates should pledge to take whatever health care is
> available to the least fortunate American. Right now, that's nothing.
> Hopefully as president, they'll have to make it something.
>