Have any conservatives seen Sicko yet?

Question

If you HAVE seen it, I want to know what exactly makes you against universal health care (if you are against it). There is obviously a problem with our health care system and those who refuse to acknowledge that fact are just plain ignorant.

For example, I have medical bills I can't pay and that I haven't been able to pay for over 2 years that's ruining my credit. One of my best friends had to declare bankruptcy because her medical bills and prescriptions were costing her too much. My stepfather (who has insurance) has had to have surgery on his back 4 times because he has a plate in his spine that keeps falling out of place.

Surely you can't think our health care system is in good shape, so how can you still justify it? (I'm not trying to be mean or political, I'm just very upset that we can't all be entitled to the same care when it seems almost every other civilized country is having major success with it.)

Answer 1

No. But I will probably buy it when it comes out on DVD. I do not generally use my entertainment dollars for a flick of this nature. I try to have fun with movies, and entertain my child.



I already know how I feel about this issue, though. I have no blinders on about this issue. I am self-employed and have a child with a life-long illness which requires thousands in healthcare, out of my pocket. And those are the KNOWN costs.



But for me it simply boils down to whose job it is to provide coverage for my family. Ultimately, if it bankrupts me, I will put him on disability. But only when it is bankrupting me.



And that is just a crazy little thing called life.



I don't think our Constitution will allow for socialized anything. Not without revising it. And every time the Supreme Court revises the 1st amendment, they leave the door open for craziness.



ADDED: Oh, and one more thing that is nearly bankrupting me: Federal taxes. That 15.3% I pay to Social Security and Medicare that I am told will not be there for me. So put one more tax bill on me and I may join the welfare class. You want truth? There's truth.

Answer 2

"...I want to know what exactly makes you against universal health care "

Because it is an income-redistribution scheme which has proven to be a failure everywhere it has been tried. If government-managed healthcare ( or health insurance ) is so promising, then why is Medicare such a disaster?



"I have medical bills I can't pay and that I haven't been able to pay for over 2 years that's ruining my credit."

Condolences, but how is that my problem? Will you send me some of your money to help me get out from under my credit card debt?



"Surely you can't think our health care system is in good shape"

Then why do people come from Britain, France and Canada (the purported scions of socialized medicine) to recieve health services here in the USA? Because they might die in their own countries before being seen by a specialist and recieving necessary treatments.

Our health care system is fine. If the left would support reducing government regulation, support medical malpractice tort reform and if the right would oppose bans on re-importing American drugs, the best health care in the world would be affordable.

Do you really think the bloated, bureaucratic government can compete with the free market if the above constraints are eased?



"I'm just very upset that we can't all be entitled to the same care when it seems almost every other civilized country is having major success with it."

Entitled? Sounds like commie talk to me, comrade!

And there are no "civilized" countries left ( though we used to be. )

Answer 3

Man, if you think Health Care is expensive now, just wait until it is Free!

Like his other "documentaries" Sicko is NOT accurate or even true. Why would anyone pay good money to receive a dose of propaganda from a communist?

If Castro's free health care in Cuba is so great, then why are so many Dr.s who were sent to Venezuela to help the revolution there be defecting?

If Canada's Health care is so much better than ours and its free, why don't you move to Canada? or better yet, Cuba?

Let me see now, you have a computer, you pay for internet access, and you go to the movies, but you can't pay your medical bills? What is wrong with this picture?

Answer 4

I will never watch any Moore movie! I am against the plan only in part. I have huge medical bills and I pay $25 a month on them. When my income went up I volunteered $150 just to get them paid off. I do have insurance and have had excellent care. I believe all people should have medical and food taken care of, I'm big on this. But from what is going on in other countries if we go this route we will have to do better than what they have. That's my beef. You have a guy who had abused his body all his life and now I should have to pay for it if I were healthy? Our taxes will crush us. Also, they wait for weeks to get into a doctor and they don't get the doctor they want but who they send you to. Now if you can improve on this I'm all for it. I don't like the idea that those on medical cards can't get dental help very easy!

Answer 5

"it seems almost every other civilized country is having major success with it" ... No, no, no, no, no. Countries with nationalized healthcare are having a terrible time with it. Please, do some research on it. You may be a very nice person, but you're quite wrong on this.



Michael Moore produces fantasies, not documentaries. He should be ashamed of himself.



Government taking over healthcare? I can hardly think of a worse idea. The purpose of government is to do things that the private economy cannot do. Healthcare is something the private economy can do.



I think the basic problem of healthcare today is that the people who receive healthcare (the patients) are not the same people that pay for healthcare (insurance companies). I don't know who's fault it is, but when those two things are separated, there is trouble.



A hospital charges $40.00 for an aspirin, and the insurance company is willing to pay it, that is a problem. Actually, that is two problems.



The healthcare system needs fixing, but government take-over is NOT the solution.

Answer 6

If I want to learn about unverisal health care I am NOT going to Moore's work of fiction.



Here is the problem unverisal health care doesn't work.



Take for example Canada what are the Canadians do if they want surgury they come here.



On the same token we want drugs we go there.



Something wrong with this picture.



Socialize medcine has it share of problems.

Look at what happen at Walter Reed.

Now you are going to trust the same government to take care of you?



Name me a government program that isn't layer with tons of paperwork to get things done.



Welfare a buck of welfare tax money the welfare mom gets maybe 10 cents of that buck.



Our current health care system isn't prefect but I don't want to trust the government to fix the problem they never do.



Look at how wonderful FEMA is to respond.

Who save lives while the governor, mayor, etc were point fingers? The common man.



In KS after the twisters hit before the governor got there the streets were cleared and people were in homes.



After the earthquake in CA what did FEMA offer an appointment in 6 months for meeting to see if they need food or water.



You think the government is the way to go?



Now to me that is just being a sicko.

Answer 7

There's no point in having universal health care until we figure out a way to fix the problem with undo corporate influence on the Democrats and Republicans we've elected to office.



Our government is inept and until that is no longer the case they're not going to be able to effectively run health care.



And I will add that if anyone thinks getting rid of malpractice suits alone will solve the problem they are dreaming.

Answer 8

Michael Moore lost *all* of his credibility (if he ever had any) when he made the movie, "9-11"; what makes him any kind of expert on UHC (universal health care)? I wouldn't cross the street to see "Sicko", if you paid for my ticket!



That being said, the main "civilized" countries I know of that have UHC (Great Britain and Canada) are *not* having major success with it! In fact, Canadians have been known to come to the U.S. to get timely and affordable heath care! I've also heard "horror stories" about the long wait in England for medical procedures for everyone but the more affluent, who can afford to eschew "free" UHC! Meanwhile, how much in taxes does the average Canuck or Brit pay for his "free" UHC? Cuba also has UHC; but didn't Castro have to send to Spain for surgeons to perform *his* colon surgery? I don't know what other "civilized" countries have UHC; but please name one which has been having "major" success it!



We definitely need some sort of reform in our health care system, particularly in the stranglehold that HMOs have, in the ease of suing doctors for malpractice, and in the eagerness of people to do so; but UHC is *definitely *not* the way to go!

Answer 9

I don't want the government deciding on what health care I can receive. I have a condition that requires expensive medication. I am sure that if the government had to pay for it, the FDA would never have approved it.



If you want national health care, why can't you just move somewhere that has it and let us have the system that we like? Why do you want selfishly want to take away my choice?

Answer 10

I have not seen the movie. I will tell you this though. I have enjoyed going to my private doctor more so than going to the free clinic. Have you ever been to the clinic? That's nationlized heathcare. We have free healthcare in America already. It is not controlled by the government. You go to any ER in America, and they must see you, or take you to someone who can. To provide healthcare to everyone will cost us tax payers big time. Do the research now that you have seen the movie. Most countries who have it are in bad shape. Research it please. There are many private doctors now in England and many are starting to go back to them. The hospitals in England only change sheets once a week.



Have you heard of Walter Reed. There's you an example of US government run hospitals. Michael Moore has an agenda. Research the propaganda he spews and then see f you still like it.

Answer 11

I am a conservative. I would not sit through a Michael Moore movie if it were free.

The US has the best health care system in the world. I am a retired claims adjuster and know way more about health care insurance than any left wing liberal loony on this site.

Try, if you can, separate two concepts in your mind. Health care and health insurance. The terms are not interchangeable.

Everyone in the US has access to health care. What is at issue is how you pay for it. We are supposed to have freedom in the US. That includes freedom to buy or not buy insurance if one so chooses.

You can have Britain's health care system. They had to import 20,000 foreigners to make up for shortages. Look what it got them: a bunch if Islamic crazies.



Health care is not free, no matter where in the world you go.

Answer 12

Michael Mooron likes to twist the facts, or only report the facts that serve his opinion. My wife is self employed and has to purchase her own healthcare, which is cheaper than if she used my employer funded healthcare. Yet if she quit paying taxes and sold all of her assets she would be able to get healthcare from the tax dollars that working people provide. How backwards is that?! One last point, when the rich from Canada and Europe get sick they come to America because we have the best healthcare in the world! Don't let Mooron's twisted agenda fool you.

Answer 13

If seeing "sicko" cost 1 buck ,I wouldn't waste my money

As for your medical bills,you weren't turned away for lack of money,you were treated.

Now,send them $5.00 a week,make an effort to pay and your credit will recover.

Just caught the lie,spine plates are screwed in and don't fall out of place without further injury to the vertebrate.

Answer 14

The F911 "documentary" had "flaws"? I observed it. It became not often a documentary, it became Michael Moore's own point of view and it contained outright lies. it incredibly is been deconstructed from stunning to backside and located to comprise some thing in far extra than 40 authentic blunders. And, he intentionally misrepresented the perspectives of a minimum of one defense force officer, for which he's being sued. i do no longer hate Moore, yet i think of he practices the worst form of yellow journalism there is - portraying scenes as genuine that have been staged in considered one of these way as to boost HIS view of activities. He used a similar approaches in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Roger & Me". a minimum of "the path to 9/11" used actors and clearly suggested it became a dramatization with fictionalized scenes. inspite of the shown falsehoods in F9/11, Moore nevertheless stands at the back of each and every little thing in it via fact easily the actuality. with the help of how: If Clinton had status orders to seize or kill Bin weighted down, why did no longer he take him whilst he became provided up with the help of Sudan? yet another situation: FarenHYPE 9/11 became extra beneficial.

Answer 15

Healthcare will not be fixed until limits are placed on malpractice suits . And that is the reason your bills are so high .

Several Republicans , including President Bush have tried and tried , but the Democrats will not put limits on malpractice lawsuits . And now you know. . . the rest of the story .





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Answer 16

Well this (moderatly) conservative wouldn't contribute to anything Michael Moore puts out. Could health care be better? Sure. But I like what this guy had to say.



Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see....



"The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source right?



The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just isn't happy and want a change.



So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What we are so unhappy about?''



Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job? Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?



Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state? Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter? I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.



Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell phones and computers.



How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.



Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.



I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?



The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show?



Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?



Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day.



Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go.



They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an ''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.



So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner?



The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane!



Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad.



We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative."



"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"



Jay Leno



All I've got to say is way to go Jay!



You are worried about ruined credit? At least you have credit to ruin. Be thankful.



Your firend had to declare bankrupcy? Be glad she could get medical treatment and the drugs were available.



Your father has back problems? Be glad there are places that can at least try and correct it.



Just because YOU lwere born in the USofA, (unless you are an immigrant) does that entitle you to special treatment? Those other 'major success' countries? Is there one of them that produces even half of what the USofA does? Is there one of them who contributes to bettering those third world nations than the USof A does?



Have you forgotten what the best Democrat since Harry S Truman said? "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what can YOU do for your country." Remember that? Or was it before your time?

Answer 17

If you dont mean to be political, why did you target conservatives?

Answer 18

Some of them still hate anyone who says we should improve our health care and anyone who bashes Bush. The most intelligent remark against Moore is that" he is a fattie" or "he is a liberal, so why should we listen to him?"

Answer 19

Conservatives do not want universal health care in the USA because it saves American lives.

Answer 20

Yes, I see sickos all the time here on Y!A and most of them are liberals.



Ohhhhhhh, you're talking about the movie................No, havent seen it.