Found through Liberty and Medicine which links to an article by Peter Howell at TheStar.com. It appears that Mr. Moore exaggerated a bit with regard to the quality of Canada’s social healthcare.

We Canucks were taking issue with the large liberties Sicko takes with the facts, with its lavish praise for Canada’s government-funded medicare system compared with America’s for-profit alternative.

Is this at all a surprise to anyone? Moore goes to great lengths to stretch and mold the truth without outright lying so he can push his agenda. I’m glad we’re hearing this but its sure to be drowned out by those supporting Moore… many who use the same tactics. Ignore evidence which conflict with your views and when in doubt yell louder and insult your critics.

We have issues in this country with our health care… but guys like Michael Moore and Dean Baker have more complaints then potential solutions.

http://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.

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