Posted on 07/03/2007 1:12:39 AM PDT by paudio
With Sicko drawing overwhelmingly favorable reviews, most of which can be accessed by using Google, an executive of the Silicon Valley wonder has approached the health-care industry, urging it to buy ads that would appear in Google search results for "Michael Moore" and "Sicko." (In one of the reviews, Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert, who observed that his health insurance "has covered a small fortune in claims" recently but that he himself has also had to pay large sums from savings, noted that the film "is likely to strike home with anyone, left or right, who has had serious illness in the family.") Lauren Turner of the Google Advertising team wrote a review of the movie on the Google Health Advertising Blog in which she commented, "Moore's film portrays the industry as money and marketing driven, and fails to show healthcare's interest in patient well-being and care." She then pitched the industry this way: "Google can act as a platform for educating the public and promoting your message."
So much for pure search. Perhaps Google should have a disclaimer on their results page.
It is? I haven't read a single good review of the movie.
As if this is somehow unjust.
Who said you had a God-given right to medical treatment? You're lucky you have access to good providers who will take your cash.
“Who said you had a God-given right to medical treatment? You’re lucky you have access to good providers who will take your cash.”
Exactly! Besides, the insurance industry is there for MAKING MONEY. Duh. They are for-profit industry after all! All this wishy washy thing about them not “caring” is just propaganda. They are providing service, which they operate to be profitable(or they wouldn’t be in business in the first place) and try to MAXIMIZE PROFITS for their shareholders/owners. And the government is helping the industry cope with socialist pressures. Good for the government for not buying into this whole “government care” for people.
You live, and you die on your own. I’m also opposed to this whole idea of “firefighters” and “police” too. The government shouldn’t be concerned about providing “free” security to its people within its own border. Let PRIVATE enterprises take care of providing security as business.
/sarcasm
Also get rid of government funded ROADS and HIGHWAYS! Why is the government into using YOUR money to build roads even if you don’t use them! Why should YOU pay for bridges that connect somebody else’s home! Get the government out of every aspect of life — from moral to social to technological.
Health care is similar to government providing “free” police and firefighter to you when you need them. Nothing in the constitution says you have to have firefighters running to your house when it is burning, or digging you out of a cave when it comes down on you. All of these services should be privatized so that people can make profit out of it, and be more efficient at it.
Money spent on health care always moves from the consumer to the provider. Any complications added to the process in the form of government intervention, managed health care plans, private insurance, or what have you, necessarily only make the system less efficient. That means higher prices, worse care, or both.
With regard to your examples of firefighters and police, police at least nominally fulfill the function of enforcing the law and helping to staff a criminal justice system, both of which are legitimate functions of government. As for firefighters, in many communities the fighting of fires is a volunteer proposition and the expense of it is shouldered by the community...not local government. And whether your house fire is put out by volunteers or professionals, you will receive a bill for their services.
It's government's job to provide for national security and a criminal justice system, and it's these jobs for which government is suited. Everything else it should stay the heck away from.
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