Yeah. Things like our armed forces, military industrial complex giving us things like the internet and microwaves, putting a person on the moon, law enforcement, postal service... such crap. We need more private power like banks or insurance companies... They've proven to operate waaay better than the government. You're absolutely right, 'Reality'.
What roses were those?
Not anything? Not the roads, not the schools, not the military? Should we replace all those inefficient fire departments and police departments with private contractors, dittor for the miliary? Oh wait, that was already happening in Iraq and saved us a bundle of money!
I saw some of Moyer's interview with Wendell Potter and it made me wonder how good Potter was as a spokesperson for Cigna. Moyer's showed some clips from Michael Moore's SICKO that implied that the Canadian health system and the Cuban health care system were better than the U.S. system. Potter accepted that view. Has Potter ever heard of the book Code Blue by Dr. David Gratzer about the problems in the Canadian system or read the transcript of Dr. Gratzer's testimony before the U.S. House of Representatiov Ways and Means Committee. Long waits for treatment are the norm. By Canadian statistics 50% of patients wait 41 days or more for a MRI. 25% of patients wait 199 days for cataract surgery. The Canadian Supreme Court recently ruled that patients have a right to use their own money to secure their own health care because the wait could be harmful to the patients' care. The Supreme Court became involved because it became illegal in the 1980s for a person to have private health insurance. Notice that last sentence. Having one's health insurance was legal and then it became illegal. No doubt the arguments used was that it would improve cost-savings.
I fully support a change in the way our health care system is set-up. However, thought should be given to whatever change is made. Anyone pushing a 1000 page bill to be processed quickly should be viewed with suspicion. No one really knows what is about to become law.
Welcome to the fight for single payer health coverage. I don't believe that anyone should make an excessive profit on the illness of someone else. Yes, of course, doctors and nurses should be well paid. Drug companies should make a reasonable profit. But insurance companies are the bloodsuckers of our society. We have to unite to defeat their strangehold on our lives.
Please speak louder. Bill Moyers,The Ed Show,Amy Goodman--not enough people are seeing your story. Your interview with Bill Moyers,especially the health expo pictures and the discrediting of Michael Moore ,along with seeing the movie Sicko, should move anyone to the side of reform. I hope you are not being shutout by design.
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