Thursday, June 28, 2007
Who's Really " Sicko " ?
WSJ's David Gratzer, brings some hard truth, that is seemingly missing in SICKO.
Money Quotes....
It's not simply that Mr. Moore is wrong. His grand tour of public health care
systems misses the big story: While he prescribes socialism, market-oriented
reforms are percolating in cities from Stockholm to Saskatoon...........In Britain, the Department of Health recently acknowledged that one in eight patients wait more than a year for surgery. Around the time Mr. Moore was putting the finishing touches on his documentary, a hospital in Sutton Coldfield announced its new money-saving linen policy: Housekeeping will no longer change the bed sheets between patients, just turn them over. France's system failed so spectacularly in the summer heat of 2003 that 13,000 people died, largely of dehydration. Hospitals stopped answering the phones and ambulance attendants told people to fend for themselves......
.....Canadian doctors, once quiet on the issue of private health care, elected Brian Day as president of their national association. Dr. Day is a leading critic of Canadian medicare; he opened a private surgery hospital and then challenged the government to shut it down. "This is a country," Dr. Day said by way of explanation, "in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and in which humans can wait two to three years."
Ouch.
Labels: Fat Bastard, Michael Moore, Sicko
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