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Sicko': Heavily Doctored
Is Michael Moore's prescription worse than the disease?

By Kurt Loder

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...58/story.jhtml

Except of the above.



We're the only "modern" country that doesn't have universal health
care. They all must be wrong.


Erroneous thinking...a preponderance of the world is Asian....we must
change our genetics...a preponderance of the world is Muslim...we must
all become Muslims...



So, I guess it's ok with you if 12 million American children don't have
health care. Got it!


It's 8.9m and a goodly number of them ARE eligible for Medicaid or other
programs but aren't enrolled...thus making it an education problem, not a
healthcare problem...
http://www.aap.org/research/factsheet.pdf

To ameliorate the problem of those that don't qualify, legislation should
be passed that finds a way to take care of them...I've had personal
experience, on several levels, with Canada's national healthcare
system...it is not something I would want for myself or any of mine
(which is a joke because half my mother's side of the family is in
Canada...they can tell you some real horror stories about national health
care..) And why would you think our overburdened, bureaucratic governemnt
could hgandle anything like national health care? Expand Medicaid. Expand
Medicare. Nationalize insurance companies or drastically change the way
insurance companies are allowed to exist. Those things are feasible.
National health care, in our system, would be a sorry mess.



So, you're talking about expanding a gov't program to include all. I'm
for it. "Expand Medicare"

It's a program already in place and already working...reform it...

Besides, those who do have coverage are at risk of losing it should they
lose their job,

that's why there's COBRA...you have 18 months, and sometimes more, to
either get re-employed or find something else...

Cobra is great, but some employers don't offer insurance, so no Cobra.


and they're at risk when insurance companies refuse to pay.

Refuses to pay for waht? Platic surgery? Breat enhancements? Viagra?
Quadruple by=pass on a 96 year old?

There are many instances of insurance companies refusing to pay or burying
people in red tape. I'm sure you can find plenty of examples!



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