Sicko
Last night, courtesy of Netflix, we saw -- a couple of years late -- Michael Moore's film that contrasts the U.S. health industry, especially the HMO's, so unfavorably compared to those of other countries with not nearly as many financial resources.
This movie has been roundly condemned by U.S. repressives, and that must be because it pits the urge to be patriotic squarely against the much more basic need to be cured of all physical pains and ills and still remain alive, and the latter drive eventually has to win, among all but the most ideologically hidebound and idiotic of people.
Moore started with looking at the health system in Canada, then went on to those of Britain and then France, and he ended with Cuba. The U.S. hardasses, mostly centered in the G.O.P., condemn these systems as being socialistic, but if that is true, then to a sick person socialism is greatly to be preferred, because it means, among other advantages, most of them currently unthinkable in the U.S., universal health care with no one being turned away, timely health care, inexpensive meds, modern technology, doctors who are by no means impoverished -- and absolutely no need to be worried about insurance.
Meanwhile Moore also makes the key point that socialism has long been alive and well in other services in the U.S. anyway, especially in the fields of free media and public schools, so why not in the all-important business of staying healthy?
There are two kinds of people in the U.S. -- the 60 percent who have health insurance and the 40 percent who don't, and among those 60 percenters are tbose who in charge of things and have no interest in seeing the 40 percenters receiving similar care, because after all, they must think, what was the point in becoming affluent and privileged if everybody else with less means could nevertheless fare just as well in all the important respects?
This is part of the "Pull Up the Ladder Syndrome," which can be seen in other areas of American life as well.
The new U.S. government is concentrating on the bad economy first, but there's no reason why the badly ailing and inequitable U.S. health care system can't be overhauled at the same time. And from "Sicko" it looks as if the first step would be abolishing the system of health insurance entirely, along with all its inequities. Surely the people who rake in so much at that game can find something else to do that wouldn't be so harmful to others, and meanwhile it's highly immoral anyway to force those who are already ill to wait and, often, to die, and well before their time.
This movie has been roundly condemned by U.S. repressives, and that must be because it pits the urge to be patriotic squarely against the much more basic need to be cured of all physical pains and ills and still remain alive, and the latter drive eventually has to win, among all but the most ideologically hidebound and idiotic of people.
Moore started with looking at the health system in Canada, then went on to those of Britain and then France, and he ended with Cuba. The U.S. hardasses, mostly centered in the G.O.P., condemn these systems as being socialistic, but if that is true, then to a sick person socialism is greatly to be preferred, because it means, among other advantages, most of them currently unthinkable in the U.S., universal health care with no one being turned away, timely health care, inexpensive meds, modern technology, doctors who are by no means impoverished -- and absolutely no need to be worried about insurance.
Meanwhile Moore also makes the key point that socialism has long been alive and well in other services in the U.S. anyway, especially in the fields of free media and public schools, so why not in the all-important business of staying healthy?
There are two kinds of people in the U.S. -- the 60 percent who have health insurance and the 40 percent who don't, and among those 60 percenters are tbose who in charge of things and have no interest in seeing the 40 percenters receiving similar care, because after all, they must think, what was the point in becoming affluent and privileged if everybody else with less means could nevertheless fare just as well in all the important respects?
This is part of the "Pull Up the Ladder Syndrome," which can be seen in other areas of American life as well.
The new U.S. government is concentrating on the bad economy first, but there's no reason why the badly ailing and inequitable U.S. health care system can't be overhauled at the same time. And from "Sicko" it looks as if the first step would be abolishing the system of health insurance entirely, along with all its inequities. Surely the people who rake in so much at that game can find something else to do that wouldn't be so harmful to others, and meanwhile it's highly immoral anyway to force those who are already ill to wait and, often, to die, and well before their time.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 9:38 AM
1 Comments:
Very well put. I am amazed by those who do not believe that health care is a RIGHT. I think probably all insurance should be abolished. State Farm will no longer insure homes in Florida, because they actually have to make payments out? Then take away their business license. Insurance is a racket!
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