Re: Sicko Revisited
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The US govt does not exactly have a good track record when it comes to efficient spending of tax dollars. Why will that suddenly change with money taken for the purpose of health care? Who holds them accountable? No one. Governments can waste all the money thery want and no one can stop them. No one can choose not to keep giving them money if they feel it's being wasted.
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I agree with this,... that is the US abyssmal govt record in efficiency. That being said, to me it is not a reason to think Universal healthcare is undoable. Its a reason for people to fix their govt.
I thought one of the more interesting quotes in the movie was an interview with someone in France. The gist of it was that the govt. was afraid of the people. People regularly challenged their govt and protested when they disagreed. Where I think the US population, for the most part, is very apathetic. Since no one holds our govt accountable, they quite often perform poorly.
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It's funny to hear liberals rail against large corporations for fear of monopolies, because they feel that monopolies are so bad for consumers. But when it comes to health care, a monopoly will magically be great for the consumer. The failings of the UK system are well documented.
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Yet according to the US report quoted in the doc, the people of UK get better health care then Americans. Also, the US was, if I remember correctly, ranked 66th for healthcare.
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Here's the explanation: The statistics that Moore uses are from the WHO, which is a socialist organization that attempts to glorify countries with socialist health care systems. They use life expectancy and infant mortality rates to judge the health care systems. This is completely inaccurate because life span has much more to do with the homocide rate than anything. Infant mortality rate is an even less accurate stat because the definition of an infant mortality is different in every country.
Do you honestly believe that you would recieve better treatment in a Cuban hospital than an American one? [/quote
Do you have studies which you think places the average American in better light?
Also - it is conceiveable that Cuba could deliver better healthcare to the avg. american... depending on their income.
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Right, so until the government is fixed, this will be a catastrophic failure. So, fix the government, get back to me.
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