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'Sicko' by Michael Moore ~ BRILLIANT ~ Must See!!! ~ Here's the trailer
We can all participate in creating a better, more responsive health
system ... thank you Michael Moore! http://ilena-rosenthal.blogspot.com/...iant-must.html http://breastimplantawareness.blogsp...iant-must.html |
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'Sicko' by Michael Moore ~ BRILLIANT ~ Must See!!! ~ Here's the trailer
On Jun 29, 6:41 pm, Ilena Rose wrote:
We can all participate in creating a better, more responsive health system ... thank you Michael Moore! http://ilena-rosenthal.blogspot.com/...chael-moore-br... http://breastimplantawareness.blogsp...o-by-michael-m... SiCKO would be a good name for a movie about the murderous cult that somehow is a religion called ISLAM. SiCKO Muslims use bombs with boxes of nails, to target innocent people. SiCKO straps bomb to self then kills many more innocent people. Michael Moore isn't all bad, but he really doesn't know what's truly important in 2007...... |
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'Sicko' by Michael Moore ~ BRILLIANT ~ Must See!!! ~ Here's the trailer
On Jun 29, 8:55 pm, Truth-monger wrote:
On Jun 29, 6:41 pm, Ilena Rose wrote: We can all participate in creating a better, more responsive health system ... thank you Michael Moore! http://ilena-rosenthal.blogspot.com/...chael-moore-br... http://breastimplantawareness.blogsp...o-by-michael-m... SiCKO would be a good name for a movie about the murderous cult that somehow is a religion called ISLAM. SiCKO Muslims use bombs with boxes of nails, to target innocent people. SiCKO straps bomb to self then kills many more innocent people. Michael Moore isn't all bad, but he really doesn't know what's truly important in 2007...... http://www.powerandpowerlessness.com/ http://www.counterpunch.org/rosenthal06272007.html headline: June 27, 2007 Two Models of Health Care Rationing Sick and Sicker By Dr. SUSAN ROSENTHAL, M.D. Everyone knows that Canadians live longer and have lower infant mortality rates than Americans. In Sicko, Michael Moore suggests that a Canadian-style medical system would solve this problem. Surprisingly, the evidence indicates that it would not. A cross-border team of 17 researchers (including high-profile supporters of the Canadian system) examined a variety of medical problems, including cancer, coronary artery disease, chronic illness and surgical procedures. With the single exception of end-stage kidney disease, where Canadian patients fared better, they found no consistent difference in patient outcomes between the two nations.1 As I have argued elsewhere, the United States has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world.2 Although Canada's medical system does not produce generally better patient outcomes, it is more equitable and far more economical. In 2003, the average American spent almost twice as much for medical care as the average Canadian. Exorbitant medical bills are a constant worry and a major cause of personal bankruptcy. Profit-taking is responsible for the high cost of American medicine. However, the Canadian system is also subject to market forces. Contrary to popular belief, Canada does not have a single-payer medical system. Government pays about 70 percent of medical costs, including most hospital and physician care. Individuals and private insurance companies pay the remaining 30 percent for prescription drugs, dental and vision care, ambulance, medical devices, home care and other services. To contain costs, both the United States and Canada ration medical care, but they do this in different ways. In the U.S., more than 47 million people have no medical insurance at all. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 18,000 people die every year as a result. In Canada, lack of access is more equitably spread across the population in the form of long waits for assessment and treatment. We don't know how many Canadians die while waiting for treatment, because no one is counting the bodies.3 The Canadian model of rationing is sick, and the American model is sicker because it unfairly discriminates against those who cannot pay. Neither is good enough. Medical care is a human right and should not be rationed at all. Disgust with the American medical system has built support for HR 676-- The United States National Health Insurance Act--a single-payer system where medical care would be publicly financed and privately delivered. Winning HR 676 would be a tremendous victory. However, the Canadian experience shows that private delivery of medical care opens the door to parasitical profit-taking. The Canadian experience ... excerpt: Quebec's model health-care system has been damaged severely by funding cuts. In 2005, Canada's Supreme Court ruled that lack of timely access to treatment in Quebec was serious enough that the province could no longer prohibit private funding for medically necessary services. Similar legal challenges are expected in the other provinces. Unless the public system is resuscitated with a major transfusion of funds, it's only a matter of time before private hospitals begin servicing those who can pay to go to the front of the line. Ironically, while Americans long for a Canadian-style medical system, that system is disintegrating under the pressure of market forces. Why ration medicine? The capitalist class will pay anything to defend and extend its power. No ceiling has been set on spending to win the war for Middle-East oil. In contrast, there is fierce resistance to funding any services for workers beyond the minimum required to keep them productive. As the competition for capital increases, most governments are reducing their investment in health, education and social services --robbing the public sector to boost the profitability of the private sector. No nation and no medical system are immune to the relentless drive for profit. The American medical system will be reformed. Ordinary people want medical services. Business complains that the cost of medical benefits is hurting their profits and global competitiveness; they want to transfer these costs to the public sector. Because Americans pay almost 90 percent more per-capita on medical care than Canadians do, rationalizing the medical system would offer fantastic cost savings. The real question is how it will be reformed. The key demand is for affordable medical care. With almost 60 percent of the American workforce making less than $15 an hour, affordable care would have to be free. That shouldn't be a problem. A nation that can find the money to pay for war can find the money to pay for universal health care --in theory. In practice, capitalism prioritizes cost-efficiency over human need by "industrializing" social services. The work of medicine is dissected into components that are individually priced and parceled out. The profitable parts are handed to the private sector and the unprofitable portions remain in the public realm or are abandoned altogether. While applying industrial methods to medicine is cost-effective from a business point of view, it fragments health care. Planning health services to meet population needs and integrating prevention and treatment, hospital and community care become impossible. Winning HR 676 would be a definite step in the right direction. However, we need to go further. Eliminating profit from the medical system requires public financing and public delivery of services (socialized medicine). More than that, all health and social services must be provided as a human right --fully funded, fully integrated and with no rationing. If capitalism cannot meet these basic needs, then we need to construct a socialist society that can. Dr. Susan Rosenthal has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years and has written many articles on the relationship between health and human relationships. She is also the author of Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-1937 General Motors Sit- Down Strike (1996) and Market Madness and Mental Illness: The Crisis in Mental Health Care (1999) and Power and Powerlessness. She is a member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. She can be reached through her website: www.powerandpowerlessness.typepad.com |
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