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