Michael Moore: Sicko
Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Canada, chemotherapy, Cuba, drugs, Google, healthcare, Lorrie Goldstein, Manitoba, Michael Moore, movies, pharmaceutical, politics, social healthcare, social public healthcare, Stephen Harper, such as cancer treatment, Toronto Sun, United States, your money, your rightshttp://www.heraldtribune.com/…
This guy bugs me big time. He’s great at propaganda… not so much on the whole documentary thing he claims to do. This new movie is sure to cause all the Moorites to freak out about US healthcare for the next 6 months and I’m sure the film is chock full of testiments as to how great the Canadian, British and French social healthcare is while convenently ignoring any negatives from those systems. Unfortuantly The Week’s website seems to be uncooprative at the moment so I’ll post a Canadian article (found thanks to Google cache) in full after the jump.
The Toronto Sun
Lorrie GoldsteinEver since Canada adopted a national health care system, said Lorrie Goldstein in The Toronto Sun, we Canadians have been forced to wait an absurd amount of time for most medical treatments. It looks as if we’ll keep waiting.
Two years ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a campaign promise to deliver “guaranteed wait times” for key medical procedures, such as cancer treatment, hip replacements, and cataract surgery. Patients would still have to wait, but at least they would know their turn would come within the guaranteed time frame.
Yet though Harper claims to have achieved “the taming of the queue”, even this limited goal hasn’t been met. Instead, each providence has picked just one of the key services to guarantee - generally the only one it already does well.
Manitoba, for example, will now guarantee its cancer patients access to radiation therapy within four weeks of a prescription. “Problem is, it already provides it within one.” If a Manitoban needs chemotherapy instead, the wait could be indefinite.
And patients can’t even go to a private clinic, because doctors are forbidden by law from taking money for any service covered by the national health plan. Harper’s “farce” is “an insult to the intelligence of Canadians.”
If a country wants to provide social public healthcare… whatever… but making it illegal for people to find private service is disgusting.
Oh and this guy is seriously into himself. “It’s a government that’s funded by the pharmaceutical companies and the health insurers, so I’m not surprised they’re coming after me.” Yeah… they are going after him because he may have broken the law by going to Cuba without permission.
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