Sicko

I saw Sicko this weekend. Let me tell you, Americans ought to be ashamed of themselves that they tolerate such a backward ass system of medicine simply because they have been made to fear communism and socialism. That a hospital actually puts unhealed patients into a cab and drops them off at a homeless shelter because they don't have health insurance is OUT of Effin order! I had no idea that type of tripe was going on here in the States. US citizens ought to be effin embarassed to even open their mouths about countries with so called "socialized" medicine. "We" and I mean "we" loosely can find billions to drop bombs on Iraq, but cannot fully insure every citizen? WTF? W.T.F?

And to that dick who runs a website that slanders Michael Moore. I hope that he has stopped his junk since it is now public knowlege that Mr. Moore (a better person than I) paid for his wife's surgery. If he hasn't he isn't worth the dust under his feet.

Bravo Mr. Moore. This film was better than 9-11.


[edit: 4 PM] I was reading an online forum where a poster said that regardless of what party was in office, Freedoms are taken away. The freedom at the top of his list was the "freedom to have all the money you earn". This is the central problem with why the US has an ass backwards healthcare system and thinks it's OK to put a sick patient in a cab and drop them off on a corner somewhere. Americans, specifically rich and wanna be rich Americans do not want to pay taxes. I do not understand the sheer greed that someone has to have where they earn say $300,000 a year and has a problem with paying taxes on that in order to pay for say, education and healthcare. I simply do not understand that type of sheer greed. It is not like even after a 50% tax on that $300,000, that individual would be hurting (unless they simply have no clue how to use money). I have a standing order with my accountant: No funny business. I have serious issues with what my money is going towards, but I'm not opposed to paying my taxes. We don't need tax cuts, we need tax reforms that has these corporations paying into the system in proportion to everybody else (seeing as how corporations are deemed "people"). We also spending reform starting with the defense department. It is simply unconscionable that the military can get what amounts to money on demand, when school systems are failing and people are getting tossed into cabs by hospitals. No, It's unconscionable that people actually go bankrupt because they got sick. [edit]

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