It is propaganda and bull at all levels. A decent sniper would have taken his butt out at several points. And name me one poor little child who has died in the American System because the parents did not have enough money to handle a transplant. You can't, because if it was the case, it would be all over the news and constantly referenced. When they talk about Health Care horror stories, they cite the same ten people. I can with a cursory search in Google show you hundreds who have died or gone without treatment in England and Canada. And Michael Moor cited how wonderful the Cuban Health Care System was. Do you know what they do with HIV patients in Cuba- quarantine camps. They are NOT allowed to mingle in the general population until they die. It seems their wonderful health care system does give them the drugs. Die they do, still. John Q is just pure propaganda and clumsy at that. I mean, their discussions about HMO's - it was like watching an episode of ER- please - it was just a massive CLICHE.
Why don't they show how government controlled health care has worked. Like Indian Reservations. Look them up, the reservation clinics are butcher shops. Look at the VA. It has been a disaster since after World War 2. There was a recent article in Bloomberg saying that Vets were happy with it. They cited one person and the numbers showed that the VA spends double the money to keep one of their hospitals open. That is realism and Michael Moore and the liberals ignore those facts.
You are too young to have seen or remember what happened to our health care system. The problem is the Insurance companies, but this started in the 70's with government meddling in the system. Every time government has meddled with it, it has expanded costs and degraded care. The American health care system was at its best in the 70's, before the meddling when the Liberal Democrats began their push to socialized medicine. We now have seen the culmination of that today. All government meddling has been disastrous: government meddling in the health care system and the banking system. For example, forcing banks to loan to minorities regardless of their ability to pay back was the ONLY contributing factor to the crash in 2008. These were the toxic loans. This is a little fact that has been hidden by the news media and the Democrats. And of course we see how the government interference with the stimulus has really improved the economy. If it wasn't so tragic, I would laugh. Government meddling with Health Care in the 90's was supposed to lower costs with HFCFA and HIPAA, reality, the costs doubled because insurance companies had to spend billions to set up new computer systems to keep up with the government mandated collection of information and report to the government.
Free Market, Socialism, Communism are all governance - so what? Free Market has always done better than the rest. And a cursory comparison of the free market to the socialized system shows that it will be an utter disaster for this country. Let's face it, the greatest medical advances and discoveries have happened in the US, not England, Canada, or the USSR. And don't give me Mother Theresa - if the RCC gave up most of their money (like the solid gold alters in their cathedrals in South, Central, and Meso America) and their 30% interest in the Miller Brewing Company(they don't pay taxes on it), then they would not have to worry about taking care of the poor. Ask your priest: why doesn't the Catholic Church take its vast wealth and do more for the poor? Your invocation of Jesus is misguided, I must remind you Jesus had to borrow his neighbors donkey. Every reference HE made to giving was in the context of voluntary (freewill), in short, when I want to give, I will give, I do not need a priest, minister, or government bureaucrat to strong arm me.
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