Michael Moore Documentary

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Wonder how much longer the American public will allow this propaganda fool to keep making his garbage...


http://adage.com/article?article_id=111424
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The health-care industry is worried sick over "Sicko."
Pharmaceutical companies have told their employees not to talk to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose next project, 'Sicko,' looks at health care in the U.S.

Few details have emerged about the 2007 documentary from Michael Moore, the filmmaker who ripped apart Detroit automakers with "Roger and Me" and now has his sights set on the $1.5 trillion pharmaceutical and health-care industry. But it's still enough to mobilize health-care trade groups who are trying to discredit the film.
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The problem is, he doesn't 'say' it's a documentary. Simply a feature film, done in documentary style. That means you can't sue his fat ass for liable.
 
i'm no fan of moore but if anybody deserves to be lampooned...

inattentive egomaniacal physicians and shitty bureaucrats that deny claims as automatonic response...
 
My recent experience with the health care industry has made it obvious that it's completley broken.

Doctor's who'd rather just give you pain pills than make any effort to find out what's causing the pain.

Doctor's more interested in passing the buck to some other specialist, who then passes the buck, and so on.

Doctor's who are ultimately interested in spending the least amount of time they can with you so they can get paid and move on to the next buck.

My girlfriend spent days with such horrible pain in her legs that she couldn't walk. Doctor said it might be Lupis. So they did some tests, told us, "it's not Lupis", and sent her home from the hospital.

Things like this just don't fly in other fields. If something was wrong with your car and the mechanic said "well it's not the transmission" and sent you home without fixing it but still charged you a few thousand how would that go over?

I hope this film nails them. :grumpy:
 
The biggest single problem with the health care industry anywhere is that it is not in a doctor's best interest for you to be well.
 
The problem with the health care industry is insurance. We've turned our lives over to corporations & refuse to see a doctor if we need to pay cash.
 
Gonz said:
...We've turned our lives over to corporations...
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That little pearl of wisdom goes way beyond the health care industry.

"we used to build great, solid products... until we found out how cheap we could make... shit."
 
I just watched this film (Sicko). That guy really has a way of saying things, taking 9/11 rescue workers who were refused health care to Cuba and get them treated there for free sure has an impact.
 
I think I said it wrong, they were not workers, they were volunteers.
 
Most of the ground zero workers in the study who reported trouble breathing while working there were still having those problems up to two and a half years later, an indication that the illnesses are becoming chronic and are not likely to improve over time. Some of them worked without face masks, or with flimsy ones. “There should no longer be any doubt about the health effects of the World Trade Center disaster,” said Dr. Robin Herbert, co-director of Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program. “Our patients are sick, and they will need ongoing care for the rest of their lives.”

Dr. Herbert called the findings, which will be published tomorrow in Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, “very worrisome,” especially because 40 percent of those who went to Mount Sinai for medical screening did not have health insurance, and will thus not get proper medical care. The Mount Sinai results found, as studies done by the New York City Fire Department also have, that those who showed up in the first hours and days after the twin towers collapsed have the worst medical problems. Seventy percent of the workers in the study arrived at the site between Sept. 11 and Sept. 13.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/nyregion/06health.html
 
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