Re: Sicko Revisited
I'm one of the people who preemptively disagreed with the film. I still haven't seen it.
The arguments for universal health care have been debated so much, it doesn't really matter if you've seen the movie. We all know the arguments.
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it will cost too much
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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 don't want to pay for others
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That's NOT the argument. The argument is that I don't want the govt to force me at gunpoint to pay for others in whatever way they see fit. I want to be able to choose who I help and in what system of charity to do it in.
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the doctors won't make any money
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The doctors will make less money. That's what happens with competition. The AMA has created a cartel for the specific purpose of artificially raising doctors' incomes through various means. Universal health care won't change this, in fact it will make it worse if anything.
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the quality will suck
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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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I'm also curious to all the people against the concept; of the countries featured on the DVD (Canada, Cuba, France, Norway (#1 for Healthcare) and even many 3rd world countries)... many of these countries supply universal healthcare and there people have better health standards then the US. How do you explain this?
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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?
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