Comments on: SiCKO now third highest grossing documentary ever.

By: phillip williams

phillip williams — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:11:09 +0000

Would someone please put a bullet in that FAT bastard!!!! The free market is the reason the USA has the best health care in the world. I do not have health care by choice, I pay cash when I go see the doctor just like any other service. Health care is a priveledge, NOT A RIGHT!!!! Do you think doctors will go to school for 8-9 years (longer if they specialize) if they can’t make any money. I am in financial planning and alot of the people I know that don’t have health care, prefer to use the money to buy a second car they don’t need, or a house that is to big and out of their budget. Iam 35 years old and have had to work very hard for the things in my life, the majority of liberals don’t understand this concept because they are highschool dropouts and to stupid to form a rational argument.
Sincerely,
Phillip L. Williams
Republican/Libertarian
p.s. would someone please wipe michael moore’s FAT ASS off this planet-I’ll let your imagination figure out how

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:08:30 +0000

Ozzie suggests an article: “The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care” by David Gratzer

But, oh, oh, when you go to Davit Gratzer’s webpage, you find out that Gratzer is a shameless insurance industry shill. He even has links for all of the major HMO’s on his page so that you can quickly go sign up.

Why is it that these corporatists will sit there and make snide remarks about Michael Moore’s truthfulness and then, in the next instant, site an article written by someone paid by the insurance industry to shill for their profits?

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:57:55 +0000

My nephew pays about $40 for a little bottle of 25 test strips to test his blood for Type I diabetes. In Austrailia, the very same bottle of 25 strips costs $3.00. And, pharmaceutical companies are free to NOT sell their products in Austrailia, yet they keep selling them there.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:55:26 +0000

The CEO of a major HMO received $1.6 BILLION in compensation for his services last year. Overhead for the insurance-based healthcare system we use today: 25 to 40%.

Medicare, which is a classic single-payer system runs with an overhead of about 3%.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:31:55 +0000

Japaner: “Id enjoy that myself, having a government clerk declare that the operation I need just isnt that important, and to please come back during the next budget cycle.

When we pay the surgeons the same wage as the street sweepers, we might just run out of surgeons.”

Right now, insurance companies pay an army of workers to deny claims. A worker has a corporate incentive to deny. A civil servant has no economic stake in whether or not you get care.

On your second “point,” again with the pathetic strawman arguments. Nobody is suggesting that surgeons and doctors are not among the most highly paid professionals in the market.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:28:08 +0000

Could phony comparisons to Cuba, a third-world nation which has been suffering under economic santions for decades be any more lame and pathetic. Yeah, guys, we’re better than Cuba!! Pathetic. Not to mention the fact that, as bad as they are, they have better infant mortality rates and life expectancy than we do. Nah, let’s compare to Britain, which gets results rated as twice as good for about 40% of the per capita cost. Or how about France, which is rated among the top in the world at less than 40% of the per capita cost we pay for healthcare.

By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ret. Col. Jack Ripper — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:21:42 +0000

Chow: “I doubt you have that type of money laying around to search for a cure for Parkinsons, but if you do then get about spending it with your best altruistic effort.”

Most of the money spent on R&D by big pharma is subsidized by the American taxpayer. We pay for it… and then, they own the patent. That doesn’t seem fair to me, and the only way to explain it is to point out that no industry has more lobbyists in DC than big pharma.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:08:59 +0000

Comment by Zooey â€” September 11, 2007 @ 2:36 pm

I’ve been keeping an eye on your project and it’s a good thing. I’m just curious with school and all, how you find the time.
Best-

By: Zooey

Zooey — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:36:31 +0000

Uncle Ho,

You are most welcome anytime. We’re having a special commemoration of 9/11 today, but just regular stuff any other day. Look forward to seeing you!

By: Uncle Ho

Uncle Ho — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:31:05 +0000

Zooey; I could only take a real quick peek on the stuff you’ve been working on. But from the little I did see, OUTSTANDING/4.0

By: Zooey

Zooey — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:21:05 +0000

Hi, Uncle Ho! I’ve been working on something new, with some friends. Click on my name. :-)

By: Uncle Ho

Uncle Ho — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:18:28 +0000

Hiay Zooey!!! Where have you been? I was asking yesterday if anyone knew where you disappeared to.

By: Uncle Ho

Uncle Ho — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:16:51 +0000

had enough; We were met at the theater entrance by the Kraft 8 manager, who proceeded to say that the chain’s HQ is in Grand Rapids, and was not his decision to show/not show the movie. An earlier reply by the same manager only weeks earlier said that the movie would not be shown because it was “too liberal”(his own words)

I have heard of another documentary of the Iraq war titled ‘No End In Sight’. Does anyone know anything about that one?

By: Zooey

Zooey — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:14:35 +0000

Once SICKO gets to DVD, he’ll still be raking in the money — so he can make even more movies exposing the filthy underbelly of this country. I plan on buying at least three copies.

By: had enough

had enough — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:51:09 +0000

In Port Huron the other week, we, of Blue November picketed the Kraft 8 theater because they refused to show Sicko. Two weeks later, they reversed course and had the film. Check it out on http://www.bluenovember.org or http://www.michaelmoore websites.

Comment by Uncle Ho

I have been hearing rumors that big pharma has bought out SICKO, to prevent it from being played at many movie theaters….also, the links to see SICKO on the internet, that I used to send are gone. Michael Moore has said repeatedly he does not care if the movie is found for free on the internet… just so everybody sees it…. So who is keeping SICKO from the public?
Personally, I would love to burn a bunch of SICKO, maybe start a campaign and send these to everyone in time before the primaries.

By: Ozzie

Ozzie — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:28:50 +0000

You do not want to go to the hospitals in Russia. very scary

By: Chow

Chow — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:27:09 +0000

And it never occurs to you why the old USSR and the current North Korea arent known for their medical discoveries or medicinal breakthroughs.

By: Ozzie

Ozzie — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:26:02 +0000

Did you know Americans spend more on pet food than for third world relief efforts.

By: Chow

Chow — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:23:45 +0000

and, no, the â€œfree marketâ€ is not awesome, because it is a fallacyâ€¦

Yet you spend so much time at the mall enjoying the benefits of an open market, capitalism and economic freedom.

By: katy

katy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:21:25 +0000

those are LIES, ozzie…

just plain LIES.
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