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Michael Moore Documentary Rattles Health-Care Giants
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| 8/21/06
| Rich Thomaselli
Posted on 08/22/2006 7:38:30 AM PDT by Huntress
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To: robertpaulsen
If that same 28 year old chooses to pay $50/month for cable/satellite, $35/month for cellphone, $40/month for DSL, $25/month for digital radio, $20/month for Netflix, cigarettes, etc. etc. it could also be called a matter of budgeting for priorities.
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posted on
08/22/2006 7:58:17 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: SDGOP
"Now now, we don't talk like that over here, leave the wishes of dying to the dummies." Who said anything about dying? Permanent paralysis would be nice. Then put a box of donuts in his line of vision.
To: Huntress
aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAghhh!!!! Healthcare is a BUSINESS... not a divine right for free care for everyone. It is for profit and should be competitive. We pay for every other service in our lives, why not healthcare? And I am sssssssssoooo sure that Moore is going to donate all the money he makes on this film to free clinics everywhere. not. How come its okay for him to make a decent living but health care providers are not? Okay, rant off...
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posted on
08/22/2006 7:59:56 AM PDT
by
Cate
To: Huntress
Or perhaps he should visit Canada and do a segment on their stellar national health care system, so backlogged that Canadians have to come to the U.S. for surgery.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:00:03 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats, Euroweenies, and the MSM--the Axis of Appeasement)
To: Gay State Conservative
That ad is sick. I have a phobia of Digger.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:00:41 AM PDT
by
kinghorse
(I calls them like I sees them)
To: Huntress; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
"We were approached, but declined," said a spokeswoman for a second top-10 drugmaker. "Frankly, as much as we felt like we wanted to get our message across, in the end we didn't want to subject ourselves to the editing process."
Nick Berg was interviewed for Fahrenheit 9/11 but his subsequent decapitation (less than a month after Michael Moore threw his support to the insurgency and denied there was terrorism) would have served as an ironic reminder of just how wrong Michael Moore is.
There is nothing to be gained in granting Micheal Moore access. You can expect to be taken out of context and solely used to advance his agenda.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:01:00 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Wolfie
Screw 'em. They should have planned better
out of the abundance of the heart, so the mouth speaks
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:01:58 AM PDT
by
brwnsuga
(Black, Proud, Conservative!)
To: Perdogg
How fat is michael moore now?? He needs to worry about his own health care. Hmmmm... That conjures up some vindictive thoughts that I need to get outta my head! /big, big smile
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:02:34 AM PDT
by
demkicker
(democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
To: Huntress
He says PROFIT BASED like it's a bad thing.if what he does is so IMPORTANT, why should he profit from it? Unfortunately, there are young people today who believe that healthcare is a right. Go over to IMDB and read the comments about this POS. When I asked one college student who was whining about having no healthcare to tell me where in the Constitution is his right to healthcare, he responded, "PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" How can you argue with morons like that?
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:02:45 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.)
To: Huntress
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Any system whether it be market based or government based is going to have what appears to be large numbers of anecdotal 'war stories.' Using Moore's number of 45 million uninsured in America, that indicates that 260,000,000 are insured and to find 19,000 legitimately disgruntled people doesn't seem far fetched to me. I'm sure if someone did a documentary in favor of the health industry, they could find millions of happy people. This film is like Howard Dean asking the members of the DNC whether or not they like President Bush. |
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:04:47 AM PDT
by
HawaiianGecko
(Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
To: brwnsuga
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:05:43 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
To: Huntress
"To read about the misery people are put through on a daily basis by our profit-based system was both moving and revolting."
I think he is on to something here. I know I would love to get medical care from someone who does it as a hobby rather than as a career.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:06:14 AM PDT
by
j_k_l
(http://www.oneflewoverthechurch.com)
To: brwnsuga
Actually, that was sarcasm. (But not too far from the attitude of many).
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:08:24 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: weegee
What young healthy people SHOULD do while they are young and healthy, is by a cheap policy in case of accidents, and stick what they would otherwise pay for a good policy into a RSP. By the time they get old and start needing health care, they could have their own policy, which will continuously replenish itself if it is drawn on.
To: avacado
EEEEWWWW!!!! That's enough to bring on junky industrial waste puke!!
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:08:34 AM PDT
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
I agree we do need to fix the health care system. One way to cut costs is to pay attention to outcome studies, cost vs outcome.....then you run into the problem of what is a life worth and quality of life issues. As an example,is it worth spending millions on a premature infant that will grow up with many physical and mental problems that will cost society even more? I do not know and who wants to make that decision? Sometimes God already makes the choice but man interferes.....enough of my rambles
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:09:43 AM PDT
by
Kimmers
To: VA_Gentleman
YEA -- typical RAT/lib/socialist MO -- profitting from others' misery.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:10:49 AM PDT
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Or perhaps he should visit Canada and do a segment on their stellar national health care system, so backlogged that Canadians have to come to the U.S. for surgery. Case in point:
Tom Green's hidden health-care lesson (Michelle Malkin - June 5, 2000)
"The weird part is how quickly all of this has happened. In three months, I found out I had cancer, I got rid of the cancer, and now, I'm recovering from cancer," Green reflected in an interview published by the Ottawa Sun. Green's recovery is neither weird nor accidental. Survival rates for testicular cancer have skyrocketed from less than 50 percent two decades ago to greater than 90 percent today. Early detection through physical examination is key; ultrasound technology then helps determine whether a lump is a cyst or a solid mass. Speedy appointments with alert specialists and competent surgeons help ensure positive outcomes like Green's.
Canadian patients, however, must endure terminal waiting lines, shoddy treatment and severely rationed care. In the short time it took Tom Green to be diagnosed, screened with ultrasound and CAT scans, and operated on twice in the United States, a typical Canadian man would still be waiting to see a urologist for an initial consultation.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:11:01 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Tulsa Ramjet; brwnsuga; avacado; Theodore R.; mhx; ex-snook; Betis70; B-Chan; Penner; duckln; ...
The American Medical Industry is generally an over-subsidized bastion of predatory parasytes that prices-out the working poor.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:12:11 AM PDT
by
ProCivitas
(Qui bono? Quo warranto? ; Who benefits? By what right/authority ?)
To: Hildy
Fat Mike is a rich anticapitalist. Goebbels would be proud of this one.
How much money does Michael Moore donate to charitable funds for those with costly surgery?
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:12:28 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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