right wingnuts are the worst—but there are plenty of reg. wing nuts too. This, from a 30 year Dem—I’m just sick of being told what to sayk do , act..all of it. It is NOT all it seem, canada

When they called it “Sicko”, it meant something. He was referring to people like you, who wil never limit the amount of money spent to kill people, but scream bloody murder (well, literally) when people want to save lives.

Since the whole concept of insurance is based on pooling risk, where risk can be determined it cannot be pooled. With the decoding of the human genome comes the ability to predict ailments. Some families are predisposed to thyroid problems, some to asthma, some to breast cancer or prostate cancer. Insurance companies will reject those who are likely to be more expensive, needing costly treatments. Thus risk can be determined for enough numbers of people to mandate universal healthcare—everybody in the pool. That’s the only way we can protect everybody from communicable or budget-busting illnesses. It is the only way we can proceed medically and ethically. Society is built on community, not individualism. Community is the pivotal principle that enables humanity to survive. Therefore, ethically, medically and strategically, everybody must be in the pool. Universal healthcare is an absolute imperative.

Then maybe the government should close all the schools, and end public education forever…?

I suppose they could use all the money we save to increase survelliance on Americans, and we could also build more prisons.

Then since the govenments job is not making sure people are healthy, we could end government inspections of food, end regulation of the pharmecutical industry, no more inspection of meat or produce. All things that the Neo Cons have tried.
We’ll let market forces take care of that.

And if you die of food poisoning, or of a bad medication, or lack of medical care, tough luck. You shouldn’t have subscribed to cable T.V..

It’s a dog, eat dog world out there and everyone is on there own, what happens to you and your children is of no concern of mine.

Except when I contract tuberulosis from you, because you couldn’t afford medical care.

Sicko was a great movie, and that fact that it makes the haters so angry, indicates how right on it was. To be cursed by the Devil is to truly be blessed.

I so agree! With what the HMOs, etc. have done to my family, my friends and myself (not to mention ill clients), it is my number one issue.MORE US citizens wil die this year in the uS from a lack of good health care than will in Iraq.Of course McCain’s mkt approach will make things worse.(Well, both candidates tout mkt forces, but McCain;s would actually provide it to FEWER people) If you ask me, allowing mkt forces to control things like health care and war, are the two most immoral things thhe USD has ever done—well, theres slavery. And the Japanese. And Gitmo,,oh well!! LOL It’s ONE of the worst!I wont go into family members too much. Although they really need to hear stuff like that. I worked with peopel om Medicaid “spend-downs” for many years. (The advancement of HMOs into Medicaid has been one great disaster)It always amazed me that this or that was just NOT COVERED—my sister’s chemotherpay? My dad’ btrain cancer? My thyroid meds ? My client’s “new” psyoactuive meds? (prob. better off without them!)A veterans first “check up” in 30 yrs?! We need to do what civilized countries do. Lets fake it until we are one! All the above is NO excuse for the Dems LAME excuses of why we “cant” (dont want to—dries up a pool of lobbying $$ and funding for spectacles like we see this week!)have natl health insurance. ENOUGH! It’s sad that, even Michael MOore, who seems more and more like another newly rich blowhard, dosent necessarily back non-market-based care. I was SURE this would be the year.It is incredibly disappointing that it appears not to be. I think when I heard the Dems “debate” health care—with Kucincih and Edwards being the only ones supporting a system that would work—I decided I just could not be a Dem anymore. If they dont care if people die, at 20,000 a year—there is very little reason for me to vote for them.I think they very much underestimate the interrelatedness of the mortgage crisis, health care (lack of), the bankruptcy bill (trumpeted by Biden for his son’s corp., MNBA)—it leaves nowhere to go if you are sick! MANY people took out these mortgages to pay off medical bills. There is no other civilized country on earth where that happens and the Dems shoudl be ashamed.

It amazes me that we are still having a discussion about health care after the movie sicko.

It should be a given that America’s health care system has failed. It’s expense, it’s waste and incompetance are well documented, and more importantly experienced by a very large percentage of Americans.

Even those fortunate to have health insurance may have dificulty getting adequate care.

Yet, providing adequate care won’t be easy. In the years since managed care became the dominate force in health care, thousands of hospitals have closed, thousands of Doctors have given up their practise, and many more who wan’t to become Doctors cannot afford the high cost of going to medical school.

There are many rural areas of the US where there are no doctors to be found, no therapists, no nurses, no care at all. In some areas Doctors may refuse to take health insurnce, because they know those needing care have no alternative.

To make a long story short, no health insurance plan will succeed unless there is a significant investment in infastructure.

The destruction of America’s health system wrought by managed Care, will take a very long time to heal.