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Old 06-30-2007   #6 (permalink)
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Default Re: Sicko hits the theaters..

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Originally Posted by brandx View Post
So are you saying that health care in the US is up to par with the rest of the world?
World Heath Organisation rankings of health care systems by country (well, the start of it anyway):

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland

Moore is a complete and utter tool. I've heard a few more-favourable-than-usual reports of Sicko, so I've got it downloading now - I sure as hell won't pay any money to him by going to watch it, but if I'm going to criticise it, I should at least watch it first. There have been several faked scenes reported in the movie (yes, I know of the CNN link saying his figures were right, but I'm not commenting on the figures); again, when I've seen the film, I may be able to comment.

However, in Moore's ultimate drive to find health care (and "justice", ostensibly) for the 9/11 workers, he actually took them to a country with an objectively worse-ranked health care system than that of the US (US at #37, Cuba at #39). It was purely a show taking them to Guantanamo Bay and moaning about inmates receiving good health care treatment - it's Moore's cronies who moan about rights for Gitmo detainees, and then when he finds that they receive notable health care treatment, he slams the US anyway. Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.

It's hypocritical. Again, I'll reserve further judgment until I've seen it myself.
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