| NKAJ said: if you watch the film sicko some startling truths come to light http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/ |
Michael Moore movies don't have any "Truths" in them, they're full of half-truths and outright lies; and the movies could best be described as propaganda for his political agenda. He cherry picks facts that support his position from a variety of sources, and then he ignores facts from these sources which disagree with his conclusions.
Does his movie demonstrate that 14% of Canadians have been unsuccessful in finding a family doctor because of the critical doctor shortage in Canada?
Does his movie demonstrate that waiting lists for major surgery are so bad in Canada that often Canadians travel to the United States and pay out of pocket to have their surgeries done in a timely fashion? Does it mention that a medical tourism industry formed in India which specifically targets Canadian patients as a lower cost alternative to traveling to the United States to get surgery in a timely fashion?
Does his moive discuss the cases of people dying from appendicitis after waiting hours in the emergency room without being seen by a doctor because of how long wait times were?
Does Michael Moore talk about how Canadians (in general) are more dissatisfied with their medical system than Americans are, and want reform to their system to make it function well?
Now, if you look at (pretty much) every medical system around the world you will notice a pattern that the quality, cost or access to healthcare has become dramatically worse over the past couple of decades because the cost of delivering healthcare has skyrocketed in every country; and public systems compensate by reducing the number of services they perform, which results in waiting lists and rationing. With this in mind, why is the discussion always surrounding who should pay or how fair/unfair certain systems are ... If someone was capable of re-creating a medical system as large and complicated as the American system, they should be able to list the top 10 things that are driving up the cost of healthcare and have multiple ways to manage those costs to bring healthcare costs down.
