MM is coming out with a new documentary.
Hopefully he not only bashes the BS out of the whole sick health-care system, but also forces meaningful change.
Making money out of illness is about as immoral as one can get.
Medicine is a vocation, like teaching or priesthood, not a for-profit business.
Unversal healthcare for all at no price to anybody is the only moral answer.
Arguing that free enterprise does a better job than government is BS
We have that now and HMO’s suck.
Universal life insurance for all at no cost to everybody is also the only moral way to go.
If you want to call it communism, be my guest.
You’re a commie.
But, then again, by that metric, so am I.
agreed. people getting rich off of the sick and dying…not cool.
people getting rich doing anything, very cool
if you want to be a free doctor, you go to school and bust your ass for 8 years and then be forced to give your time away.
-Imp
Nothing ever happens unless someone gets paid.
You all do realize that most Doctors are deep in debt for the first 10 yrs of their career. Most are paying off loans that would make you cringe. If they actually do set up an office, the equipment needed is outragously priced so there goes another debt. Then lets look at the insurance premiums they must pay now. That payment alone per month would house several families. So is it the Doctors or is it the lawyers and insurance companies that make healthcare unaffordable?
I must pay a hospital bill that is horrible, well they think I am going to pay all of it. I will fight them and win. See most people don’t question the charges they get either. People actually think they can’t fight the 16 dollar cost of an aspirin. B.S. You fight, you question it, you negotiate, you pay a fair mark up price and you win. Health care costs don’t have to be so horrible if we take the people to task instead of capitulating.
I am against universal health care as it is being proposed now. I think there are severe problems that must be addressed before forcing Doctors into a situation of Being Gov’t servants. Like what is going to happen to our taxes for tiny problem. And the thought of unhappy doctors protected by the Gov’t makes me cringe and become very nervous for the poor.
The American allergy to taxation is what keeps America from becoming a properly civilised country.
Public transportation is a joke, the schools are sub-par, the Universities (which aren’t sub-par) cost an arm-and-a-leg, and the medical system manages to combine the worst of both worlds and is an overpriced joke.
While the debt is a problem, the doctors who enter med school looking to make money become the kinds of doctors you don’t want to interact with. If you talk with good doctors, the profit motive is quite low on their list of priorities.
I have no problem with being taxed. It is how much waste, how much is taken and how it is applied. Right now Our IRS system is illegal and deplorable. How can the IRS legally have a surplus? A surplus? Yet we have a deficit? How? it should not be possible. Fix the taxing system first. it is a privelige to pay taxes or it should be. Right now it is a punishment.
yeah, like sierra leone, the slave trade, sweatshops, and robbers.
We’ll see how much of a medical system fan you are when you’re 76.
Add to my list of cost free public services - Education at every level.
And fully equpped hospitals and clinics all with the latest gizmos.
That solves all of the above.
Actually, a lot of it should be about not equipping hospitals with every kind of gizmo. For example, there are a variety of redundant multi-million dollar machines that are rarely used at several hospitals in Indy. They really only need one of those to service the entire city, because they really aren’t used that much. But, in order for that to happen, it would mean that hospitals would have to shuffle patients around which would hurt their profit margins.
It is things like that, that are driving up the cost of healthcare in America.
And I do agree that education should be free, or at least heavily subsidized.
freedom is a bitch isn’t it?
-Imp
No but the people who beleive in it are.
especially when they are armed.
-Imp
I hate freedom, but not as much as I hate Michael Moore. He’s worse than those dicks from the stop smoking ads who lie for 30 seconds then flash their “truth” logo. It’s fucked up that the best way of manipulating public opinion is to appeal to the lowest common denominator (ignorance)and then lie your ass off to the fucktards who can only think what they’ve been told to. Someone should assasinate that piece of shit.
So is rectal cancer.
Freedom - Responsibility = Anarchy
Responsibility - Freedom = Slavery
Freedom + Responsibility = Liberty
Freedom isn’t the bitch but Responsibility.
only in canada where you have to wait in line for 2 years just to see a doctor for it…
-Imp
Personally I’d rather live in Canada, get treated for whatever I need to for free, and then go to the states to pay (where everyone is paying anyways) if I happen to need a specialty/rush job by some Dr. Nick.
You’re right though, paying 25,000 dollars for a simple surgery seems like it would work a lot better. I’m sure you’ll feel like you’re getting the long end of the capitalist stick when you dish out the price of a car to get some stiches.
Your brilliance never ceases to amaze those who’d more than willingly take absorbent sums of your money I’m sure. Paying a couple taxes is the end of the world, but paying 2000% cost of common medicine you can get for 5 cents in an other country is fine.
I think you’d rather burn a million bucks out of spite than give it to those in need eh?
Smart.
no, I’d rather teach them how to earn their own stuff and the ones who don’t want to work can die.
look at nature sometime.
-Imp