Nigga please

Michael Moore is a hero!

Looking forward to “Sicko.” As a physician I’ve always cringed at our profit-driven health care system.  It was bad enough when there was private care only.  Then, one’s conscience tended to put a brake on greed and one could, for the most part, pay attention mostly to what was good for the patient..  This has been turned upside down by corporate health care, HMOs & such, because these have no conscience, only the bottom line counts.  What’s more, despite what’s claimed, they’re not efficient.  That’s because they waste so much moola on in-between sorts, such as administrators, marketing experts, minders who oversee physicians and on profit.  The usual wastage number is around thirty percent but it’s closer to fifty percent.  This means that the public gets insufficient health care for the buck.  And that’s without even mentioning the 45 million of us who have no health insurance, out of whom eighteen thousand died last year for want of treatment, and surely this is mass-murder and a crime against humanity
Only oldies on Medicare get their money’s worth and that’s because Medicare’s overhead is well under five percent.  That’s comparable to the single payer coverage that’s offered to folks in all the other industrialized countries of the world.  We don’t hear much about this in America because those are for the most part socialized systems and that’s a bad word here.  But having personally experienced these other systems, both as a physician and as a patient, out front & here & now, let me say that they’re every bit as good as the best that we have to offer here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  Yes, there’s waiting sometimes, but has anyone tried to get an appointment with a specialist at an HMO. 
I’m sure Michael Moore will be covering much of this in his documentary, but maybe the above will soften the way for him a little.
May everyone live in good health to over a hundred years, helped along the way by organ and other transplants, provided courtesy of stem cells, scientists and the always generous and caring American people.