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July 1, 2007
Not Even MTV Buying Sicko
You would think an iconic moonbat like Michael Moore would be able to count on support from MTV, whose focus on the Clearasil set dictates left-leaning politics. But no:
Moore is also a con man of a very brazen sort, and never more so than in this film [Sicko]. His cherry-picked facts, manipulative interviews (with lingering close-ups of distraught people breaking down in tears) and blithe assertions (how does he know 18 million people will die this year because they have no health insurance?) are so stacked that you can feel his whole argument sliding sideways as the picture unspools. […] There are a number of proposals as to what might be done to correct [problems with the healthcare system]. Moore has no use for any of them, save one.
As a proud socialist, the director appears to feel that there are few problems in life that can't be solved by government regulation (that would be the same government that's already given us the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Motor Vehicles). In the case of health care, though, Americans have never been keen on socialized medicine. In 1993, when one of Moore's heroes, Hillary Clinton (he actually blurts out the word "sexy!" in describing her in the movie), tried to create a government-controlled health care system, her failed attempt to do so helped deliver the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives into Republican control for the next dozen years. Moore still looks upon Clinton's plan as a grand idea, one that Americans, being not very bright, unwisely rejected.
Like most willfully ignorant liberals, Moore holds up Canada's dysfunctional socialistic healthcare system as an ideal to be emulated. The 2005 documentary Dead Meat provides a more accurate picture.
A 52-year-old woman in Calgary recalls being in severe need of joint-replacement surgery after the cartilage in her knee wore out. She was put on a wait list and wound up waiting 16 months for the surgery. Her pain was so excruciating, she says, that she was prescribed large doses of Oxycontin, and soon became addicted. After finally getting her operation, she was put on another wait list — this time for drug rehab.
A man tells about his mother waiting two years for life-saving cancer surgery — and then twice having her surgical appointments canceled. She was still waiting when she died.
A man in critical need of neck surgery plays a voicemail message from a doctor he'd contacted: "As of today," she says, "it's a two-year wait-list to see me for an initial consultation." Later, when the man and his wife both needed hip-replacement surgery and grew exasperated after spending two years on a waiting list, they finally mortgaged their home and flew to Belgium to have the operations done there, with no more waiting.
Rick Baker, the owner of a Toronto company called Timely Medical Alternatives, specializes in transporting Canadians who don't want to wait for medical care to Buffalo, New York, two hours away, where they won't have to. Baker's business is apparently thriving.
And Dr. Brian Day, now the president of the Canadian Medical Association, muses about the bizarre distortions created by a law that prohibits Canadians from paying for even urgently-needed medical treatments, or from obtaining private health insurance. "It's legal to buy health insurance for your pets," Day says, "but illegal to buy health insurance for yourself." (Even more pointedly, Day was quoted in the Wall Street Journal this week as saying, "This is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and in which humans can wait two to three years.")
As a small child could figure out, the potential demand for healthcare is infinite. Since not even Democrats think taxes can be raised infinitely, this means government healthcare must be rationed. If Michael Moore were concerned with health, he would lose a few tons of the lard he's been dragging around. As always, the liberal agenda is really about control.
When libs have managed to ration access to healthcare, next they can move on to food — then maybe even Michael Moore will complain.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 1, 2007 1:25 PM
Comments
If Canadians leave the country and pay for medical care somewhere else the government refuses to pay for follow up treatments when they return. They are punished for going outside the system that would let them die on a waiting list.
Posted by: Chris at July 1, 2007 4:37 PM
the frog on her lapel would explain the wart growing from her neck...
Posted by: nanc at July 1, 2007 6:28 PM
Unfortunately, the Hildabeast is precisely the person who could ram this "Universal Heatlthcare" (Socialized Medicine) down all our throats, should she ever come to power. All the more reason to defeat her (and her occasional husband of convenience) resoundingly at the polls come November, 2008.
Posted by: jc14 at July 1, 2007 6:38 PM
well, that was a shameless plug!
Posted by: nanc at July 1, 2007 9:07 PM
Whoops.
* The figure cited in the original posting of this review — 18 million — was radically incorrect.
Posted by: FGFM at July 2, 2007 6:59 AM
