Comments on: SICKO - Reality and Rhetoric http://brainblogger.com/2007/09/11/sicko-reality-and-rhetoric/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: The Huckabee Diet: A Flawed Model of Health Advocacy | GNIF Brain Blogger http://brainblogger.com/2007/09/11/sicko-reality-and-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-83815 The Huckabee Diet: A Flawed Model of Health Advocacy | GNIF Brain Blogger Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:32:48 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2007/09/11/sicko-reality-and-rhetoric/#comment-83815 [...] film-maker Michael Moore, unfortunately, is pitched at a more personal level after the release of Sicko in 2007: “Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the healthcare system costs so much in this [...] [...] film-maker Michael Moore, unfortunately, is pitched at a more personal level after the release of Sicko in 2007: “Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the healthcare system costs so much in this [...]

]]> By: John R. Graham http://brainblogger.com/2007/09/11/sicko-reality-and-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-62794 John R. Graham Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:46:37 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2007/09/11/sicko-reality-and-rhetoric/#comment-62794 It's simply not true that other capitalist economies have kept health care out of the for-profit sector: Michael Moore simply mis-represents what's happening in other countriesl. Only Canada has a complete government monopoly on hospital and physicians' services, and it is crumbling under the weight of a 2005 Canadian Supreme Court decision that the government monopoly violates Canadians' civil rights. Shortly after the release of SiCKO, BUPA, Britain's largest private insurer, sold its hospitals to a private equity partnership. In France, private hospitals compete against public ones for publicly insured patients. Read the Wall Street Journal last week for a feature on Holland's reforms allowing more private insurance choices in order to reduce waiting times for treatment. Nor is most U.S health care for-profit: about 85% of U.S. private hospitals are non-profit, including the examples in SiCKO. Most of the U.S. insurers attacked in SiCKO are non-profit. Michael Moore simply chooses not to know what he is talking about. I will be speaking on a panel following a film screening of SiCKO and other movies in Los Angeles on September 27 at a free event. Please register at http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/events/ID.37/detail.asp and join us! It’s simply not true that other capitalist economies have kept health care out of the for-profit sector: Michael Moore simply mis-represents what’s happening in other countriesl. Only Canada has a complete government monopoly on hospital and physicians’ services, and it is crumbling under the weight of a 2005 Canadian Supreme Court decision that the government monopoly violates Canadians’ civil rights. Shortly after the release of SiCKO, BUPA, Britain’s largest private insurer, sold its hospitals to a private equity partnership. In France, private hospitals compete against public ones for publicly insured patients. Read the Wall Street Journal last week for a feature on Holland’s reforms allowing more private insurance choices in order to reduce waiting times for treatment.

Nor is most U.S health care for-profit: about 85% of U.S. private hospitals are non-profit, including the examples in SiCKO. Most of the U.S. insurers attacked in SiCKO are non-profit. Michael Moore simply chooses not to know what he is talking about.

I will be speaking on a panel following a film screening of SiCKO and other movies in Los Angeles on September 27 at a free event. Please register at http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/events/ID.37/detail.asp and join us!

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