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1. #1
   On June 21st, 2007 at 9:44 am, jimyai said:

   I lived in Cuba for a while.
   There are two systems for health care(and everything else in Cuba) one system for Cubans and one for tourists.
   IF you are Cuban you can’t get an asprin at a hospital.
   Women in Cuba are given a ration book for sanitary napkins (12 a year). When they go to the hospital to pick them up they find there are none for them. They’ve been sold on the black market.
   Most of the women of Cuba have to literally use rags.
   Michael Moore would have seen only the touris health care system.

2. #2
   On June 21st, 2007 at 10:15 am, bipartisancomplainer said:

   Though Moore’s tactics are questionable at best (illegal and manipulated at worst), I would like to be assured that our 9/11 first reponders are getting the best treatment available. If Sicko is exposing a hole in the system for even one of those responders, I’d like that hole fixed asap.

3. #3
   On June 21st, 2007 at 10:19 am, Rick Moran said:

   Agreed. In fact, the government has set aside almost $2 billion to treat some workers at Ground Zero suffering from unknown respiritory ailments.

4. #4
   On June 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am, The Raging Republican said:

   I really don’t know who is worse at praying on people for personal gain…….Michael Moore or Al Sharpton.

5. #5
   On June 21st, 2007 at 10:56 am, On-my-soap-box said:

   Raging…. the answer to your question, YES!!!

6. #6
   On June 21st, 2007 at 11:26 am, gregorystephens said:

   Why would someone who has profited so greatly from the freedoms he enjoys as an American citizen break the law by traveling to Cuba in order to create a film for the sole purpose of harming the U.S? Do these people really hate George Bush that much?

7. #7
   On June 21st, 2007 at 12:13 pm, Floyd R. Turbo said:

   Haven’t seen nor intend to, Sick-o. Understand it’s a typical rant by Mr. Moore. May I ask something? What business does a 100+ pound overweight/obese man have criticizing our health care system? Yes, it has its flaws. What doesn’t these days? He, and MANY in America, want to live any old way they please, any destructive lifestyle they please, and then get POd when the healthcare system can’t come up with a miracle pill that fixes everything so they can go on with their destructive lifestyle, with no changes or consequences. Jeez. To use your phrase, “Lawd help us”. BTW, it is coming to light in many healthcare practician circles that the diseases that have been killing Americans for years, don’t exist in many (most?) places around the world. Gee, ya think it might be our ‘murrican lifestyle that needs to change? Naw. Can’t be. Big Macs, sugar ‘n other processed foods are good for us…right?

   Someday, we might learn…ain’t hold’n my breath.

8. #8
   On June 21st, 2007 at 1:04 pm, yohannbiimu said:

   Turbo, you’re about 200 pounds short on your estimation of Mr. Moore’s weight.

9. #9
   On June 21st, 2007 at 4:49 pm, Val Prieto said:

   I wonder what all those Cubans that live off food ration cards felt when they saw all 400 pounds of Moore waddling about their country?

   I can imagine a couple scenarios off hand:

   First, a run on raft building materials, with the Cubans realizing just how much food we have here in the States and just having to get here to get some.

   or…

   Cubans taking a look at Moore and deciding to stay in Cuba, food ration card and all, because if eating so much makes one look anything like old Mikey, they’d rather stay hungry and oppressed.

10. #10
    On June 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm, Floyd R. Turbo said:

    Well, I wasn’t tryin’ to estimate how much he weighed, just a gestimate of how much OVER weight he might be. That’s why I said 100+ pounds over. He’s probably 300+ in total weight, unfortunately for him…but you’re right, he’s a hefty feller. “Big Mac, fries & a Coke-supersize it!”. Erg.

11. #11
    On June 21st, 2007 at 9:20 pm, watershed said:

    I hate to call out a strawman, but Moore’s weight has literally nothing to do with anything relating to the healthcare system.

    Let’s stay on topic and not demean and debase the comment area of this blog, and get into the same hot water MM’s site did last time.

12. #12
    On June 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm, CEWJ said:

    Sorry, watershed, but Michael Moore is a man who has obviously abused his body with an overindulgence of food and a lack of exercise and still expects to be carried as deadweight by the rest of us in a national health care plan, not to mention the irony of a terribly out-of-shape man lecturing the rest of the country about “poor” health care. His weight is very much fair game on this topic.

13. #13
    On June 22nd, 2007 at 7:07 pm, general company said:

    So where exactly does Moore get his heath care? Moore suggested to O’Reilly that he thought we should all be paying 70 percent tax. That pretty much summed up Moore for me, with a tax rate like that, socialized health care will be the least of our worries.

14. #14
    On September 17th, 2007 at 10:54 am, laugrat said:

    In the Fall 2007 issues of Johns Hopkins Medicine there is a good indication of what the rest of the world thinks of medicine in the United States. In an article entitled A Royal Gift of Tower-ing Impact one gets the understanding of what the influential of the world think of medical care offered in our prestigious institutions of medicine, like Hopkins.

    A Royal Gift of Tower-ing Impact

    “Above and beyond” patient services paved the way for the UAE’s generosity.

    Months after the United Arab Emirates endowed Johns Hopkins Medicine with a momentous contribution that catapulted the hospital’s $1.2 billion redevelopment plan toward reality, the confetti is still flying.

    The gift, one of the most significant Hopkins has received to date, will help fund a 913,000-square-foot cardiovascular and critical care tower that will be named for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who formed the UAE in 1971 and ruled it until his death in 2004.

    JHM International’s above-and-beyond patient services team is known around the hospital—and the world—for its personalized attention to everything from appointment scheduling and financial planning to interpreting and arranging travel.

    The team has tailored care for patients from the UAE since at least 1988. And when it comes to opinion leaders such as the royal family, “the service expectations are above and beyond any standard,” explains Raffaella Molteni, director of international patient services. “Our coordinators work day and night, weekends included, to manage and facilitate any possible need.”

    The first large-scale visit was in 2005, when a high-ranking royal arrived for surgery with an entourage of more than 70 people. Since then, similar groups have returned each year for care ranging from orthopedic surgery to dermatology consults.

    The preparations begin months in advance, says Wafik Gobrial, who orchestrates the often two-month-long events. Schedulers arrange back-to-back appointments for as many as 30 family members. On Marburg, facilities experts upgrade the private suites with new TVs and familiar satellite channels, laptops, artwork, curtains and Oriental rugs. The team hires additional help—private duty nurses and interpreters among them. Everyone from kitchen staff and housekeeping to nurses and medical staff are briefed on cultural do’s and don’ts. “Our team knows that all will go well,” says Gobrial. “It has to.”

    One can make an argument that this kind of special treatment is reserved for the wealthy and that the expertise in our incredible medical institutions should be made available to all areas of our own country, but make no mistake, it is in the US that medicine is making historic break-throughs, not countries with socialized medicine.

    Michael Moore won’t go to Cuba when he needs healthcare, nor should Americans buy his argument of socialized medicine..