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By Stevie Smith Jul 3, 2007, 13:32 GMT
Google blogger slams Michael Moore’s Sicko
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Older Talkback
@ SW HS student
dude when your the one paying for insurence you will care now go back to your xbox.
smalltalker
Insurance companies do not negotiate rates with doctors. They dictate how much they will pay no matter the true cost of the procedure. Most of the time they pay out significantly less than the true cost of the procedure. Why do you thing there are no neurosurgeons in the entire southern half of Illinois. It isn't because people don't need them. It's because insurance companies only pay out $15 dollars for a procedure that really costs $30. (based on a spinal injection, which is fairly common in elderly people). The buck has to be passed in order to keep doctors where they are needed.
While the topic is complex, I wonder why would this 'article' hit the top of the news. I think there is someone out there collecting ratings on a hot topic targeting the simple minded. Opinionated blogs are hardly 'articles'. Try some supporting statistical analysis - the health care system is riding the country into poverty. And the world is running out of oil. And capitalism is based on population growth and debt, not the well being of humans. And U.S. is becoming more like another south american country - watch the president and accept injustice/lies as a step stone to corruption. So, how about reading about someone doing something constructive about it? ... Oh yeah, that does not attrack high ratings.
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'She also goes on to accuse Moore of portraying the medical and pharmaceutical industries as being 'money and marketing driven' while failing to focus in on 'interest in patient well-being and care' throughout the film.'
The words 'interest in patient well-being and care' cannot be placed next to the words 'Pharmaceutical Companies'. Period.
@ Ces
Your perception of simple minded people is just that = 'your perception' you dont want to talk about negitive things because you only want to accepth the positive aspects of life. your way of thinking is good because many successfull people will tell you that positivity attacts positive results nad if we could show enough positive things about this system that was masterminded by corrupt individuals 'nixon' then it will seem good. I dont want to leave this country when i retire. but unless there is massive reform i will leave this country when i turn 62 and i will have my pension deposited to a savings account. and i will move back to poland and live at there pace which is slower but ultimatly more satesfying for an old fart.
Well, that will promote some Health care/HMO advertising investment in Google, along side the searches for SICKO, and Michael Moore.
Don't ever accuse Google of not pandering to the interests of money, whether it's influencing your own opinions, or selling your 'personal' data you normally wouldn't share.
Yep, follow the money..... into Google's pocket.
Great search engine, but a censored, industry-influenced source of news and information...
You're all real brave with anonymity - and, yes, I'd say that to all your faces if we were in a room together. But we're not, so I doubt you'd all really be brave enough to insult each other in person which means I'd never get a chance to say it.
'interest in patient well-being and care,'
If the health care industry really cared about it's patients, they would not have put my father through 10+ years of band-aid patching his alcoholic disease until he finally died from it. Not once did anyone try to help my father beat his addiction. All these so-called doctors could do was give my father a bed and some librium until he was detoxed and then sent him on his way...over and over and over and over and over...
This article sucks.
'While not written on a personal blog, with no such disclaimer, Turner’s presently spot lit criticism of Sicko doesn’t help Google in terms of scrutiny of its closely formed relations with corporate advertisers or the validation of its usage of various blogs – both those that are official or personal to its staff members – in the convenient delivery of PR.' ?!?!
Learn how to write an intelligible English sentence. Then I might consider reading and thinking about what you have to say.
Michael has had a chip on his shoulder since the first time we caught him up in his room eating a whole package of Oreos. We laughed and he never forgave us. It was around that time that Michael started lying about everything. I suppose being a liar has helped his celebrity status, as todays' pop culture seems to deify liars. Anyway, all the cousins still love him, but we know from real life experience that Michael will stop at nothing to destroy any entity that he cannot control. Heaven forbid he gets pissed at all us Democrats!
Google is good. Google is clean. I trust their product. They have fought to keep their information system accessible to the average, majority of Americans. The most hateful, explotable forces such as insurance companies, medical complex, Fox network, and Forbes must attack, destroy or attempt to mutate the public trust in Google to deny the average American another source of truth.
I just received the bill for my son's dental work,250 US dollar.Tomorrow I will go and get back 236 dollars from the state insurance .I hope americans wil enjoy modern health care too very soon .How is it posible some people still find lame excuses for preventing people from benefiting from health care .
I spent some time in Mexico about 7 years ago and had to visit a hospital in Guadelajare because my wife got a kidney inlamation .I just showed them my plastic insueance card and got her immediate consultation.THe diagnosis was emailed as was the prescription .Even in Mexico the cost was no more than 20 dollars,of course paid back in Belgium without much hassles by the state insurance.
Let us hope americans will soon enjoy this kind of service too .
To Pablo R
Alcoholism is treated as a disease ,which it is ,in my country .You can spend time off from work on sick leave providing proper treatment is accepted .Meanwhile you get part of your salary,all the advantages of social health and excellent doctors doing their best to help your father .That should be a normal thing anywhere in the modern world .I can understand proper care is not allways possible in underdevelloped countries,but the USA can provide better healthcare to it's inhabitants without much of a burden.Just a tiny fraction of the money wasted on weapons would provide for it all.There is no excuse.
Michael Moore is a opotunist adn propagandist. He does nothing to solve the problem at hand. If the guns and war and President and healthcare system are so bad around here, he woudl have moved his fat a$$ out a long time ago.
Just like the rest of the Hollyweird crown, he's all talk and no action.
The problem with all of the ranting about the healthcare system is that none of you have the forsight too suggest any real solutions. The only thing you, and Moore, accomplish is hippy 'stick it to the man' sydrome. The problem with the healthcare system is not going to be fixed by making it public. It would actually create much worse problems whihc include overcrowding in state run offices and hospitals, very long waits, abuses of the system, slowing of technigolical advancement, extrmeely high taxes to supplament costs.($5.00 / gallon of gas in Europe) Ask someone you know is Canada or Europe if they enjoy the quality of healthcare they receive, 80% will tell you no.
You would no longer have state of the art facilities because they are governed by the state and legislator. Your not affecting 'the man' because they are still selling to the government. Drug companies have only 10 years to make a profit on the billions of research that go into new drugs. If they can't make that profit, there will be no new drugs. There is a much larger picture that you take the time or energy to see. That is why Moores films are useless, he is a college dropout and doesn't have the mental ability to look at the whole picture.
So this blogger thinks the health care system is not about money and is about our well being?
HaHaHaHaHa HaHaHa
@ Forsight
5$ per gallon is nothing, i would pay 10$ p/gal for an alternative source of fuel so as to starve the oil rich countrys like iran. imo - money well spent...
I think you shouldent leave coments on here without watching the movie...
Try having a child with a medical problem.I quit my job to take care of him because Cigna Health care would not pay for physical therapy. They also would not pay for necessary testing to diagnose eating problems. They basically said your child can starve.I have had to beg doctors to take my son on as a case because they don't want to deal with my insurance company. The reason being; all the games they play on paying the doctor. Denials, because they claim a name is spelled wrong on , or the say they never received a claim. Any petty excuse.Would you want to do a job you don't get paid for? The insurance company also dictates what medicine my child takes.Do you think the insurance company is influenced by pharmaceutical company's giving a discount on that drug? You bet.In essence they tell doctors what test they can and cannot run. What drugs to prescribe and what's not covered.Hey all this with out a college degree in medicine. That is why most doctors can't except my son as a patient in good conscience.In quiting my job I am no longer covered by insurance.I haven't had a check up in ten years since my son was diagnosed with autism.I live in Va. the worst state in the country as far as government help with anything.My son is on a waiting list for help he's been on it since the age of eight. The estimated age for him to receive help is seventeen a year before he is an adult. So again another avenue with a dead end. Is there a problem with our health care system? In focusing on a film like sicko and critiquing the director only, and his view of the content does a lot of damage to the real issue at hand. The failing health care system in America. I would like to see Morgan Spurlock take the challenge and make a documentary about this. As far as the person that wrote the article she can come and visit me if she wants a lesson on health care.
s. george's post says it all. The system is broken. If you personally have not experienced the failure of the American health care system yet, consider yourself lucky. But if you ever get laid off, get sick with a disease you're statistically too young to have, or become self-employed, you will see the ugly truth firsthand.
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