sicko

[Sir Eats A Lot]

i saw this tonight, pretty moving. anyone else?

[siccjay]

Thumbs up for your thread!

[tuq]

I was really hoping that this thread was going to expose NT!'s animal fetishes. Keep waiting, I will.

[SuperUberBob]

Michael Moore spoke at PSU during Fall 2004. The school paid him over $30,000 to speak there. It was supposed to be about his new movie (this was before Fahrenheit 9/11 was released). But from the start, Moore made it a giant rally against President Bush, encouraging the hugely liberal audience to vote Kerry and so on. What a waste of our tuition money.

Though "Sicko" does look like an interesting movie.

[NT!]

i'm interested in this movie, but OP, you did a terrible job starting the thread

[evank15]

Sicko makes the Canadian Health Care system look a little too rosy. Way better than the US? Of course. As good as MM makes it look in the film? Not even close.

[NT!]

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Sicko makes the Canadian Health Care system look a little too rosy. Way better than the US? Of course. As good as MM makes it look in the film? Not even close.

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yeah from talking to some canadian friends they say that the waiting lists, etc can be a bitch. seems like the major advantage of the canadian system is in accessibility of minor / preventive stuff, not having to worry about if it's covered or something.

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In America Alone, Mark Steyn points to some examples of women being helicoptered to a different province during labor because there were no beds available for them in the province they lived in, as evidence of the complete failure of the system to provide decent care. This book is heavily right wing, though, so I question his motives and understand that it is very easy to position anecdotal evidence as conclusive.

[SmileyEH]

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In America Alone, Mark Steyn points to some examples of women being helicoptered to a different province during labor because there were no beds available for them in the province they lived in, as evidence of the complete failure of the system to provide decent care. This book is heavily right wing, though, so I question his motives and understand that it is very easy to position anecdotal evidence as conclusive.

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Haha, when I was born my mom was flown 500km (to a difference province) to give birth to me because our anesthesiologist was on holidays. Our town has a population of 5000 so obviously this isn't a fault of socialized medicine. Be pretty funny if stories like that were used for his book.

[evank15]

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In America Alone, Mark Steyn points to some examples of women being helicoptered to a different province during labor because there were no beds available for them in the province they lived in, as evidence of the complete failure of the system to provide decent care. This book is heavily right wing, though, so I question his motives and understand that it is very easy to position anecdotal evidence as conclusive.

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Mark Steyn is a joke.

He is the token conservative columnist in Maclean's, an otherwise outstanding magazine.