Michael's Moore's film "Sicko" opens nationwide today. The reviews, including this one, say it's part funny, part sad. I plan to see for myself Sunday.
It's part sad because people with regular ol' health insurance often can't catch a break in this country. If you're unlucky enough to be, say, in a car wreck, as was a friend of mine five years ago, you end up paying doctor bills FOR YEARS. (Unless, of course, you are wealthy, which this friend is not.) Another friend in his early 60s can't retire because he can't afford the hundreds of dollars per month in insurance premiums. And, people actually die because they are "out of network." If you don't have health insurance, along with about 47 million other Americans, that's a crime in itself; and if you're uninsured and get treated at a city/county emergency room, we all pay for that, too, via taxes.
In the interest of being "fair and balanced," if you would just as soon Michael Moore get sick and die, you might like this site.
2 comments:
sooo... socialized health care is what you propose?
i already know that mm has an agenda.
I don't know what it would be called. All I know is the system is broken. Of course he has an agenda; I agree with that. The words socialized medicine are often banted about as a scare tactic--"Oh my gosh, we'll be the former soviet union before you know it." Something between that and what we have might work. ... thoughts?
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