Michael Moore’s malpractice
We put up our latest Hot Air Vent, tackling Sicko, on YouTube. You can watch here:
Variety reported yesterday that Moore won’t debate Tom Delay on ABC News. He was originally scheduled to debate former Rep. Billy Tauzin:
On Thursday, former House GOP leader Tom DeLay called filmmaker Michael Moore a “plus-sized publicity hound” who is “chicken” because the controversial helmer canceled a skedded appearance this Sunday on a talker to debate health care issues, the subject of his “Sicko.”
ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous” had arranged the debate. But according to DeLay, Moore refused to provide a copy of the doc so that the ex-lawmaker could see it in advance and then cancelled without explanation.
“Guess he didn’t expect anyone to seriously take him on,” DeLay wrote on his Web site. “Had I known he was this chicken, I would have accepted on the spot, but at least I can spare myself the agony of watching one of his mockumentaries. Bottom line: his movies, his politics, and his incessant bullying are all an act.”
Delay titled his blog post, “Sicko is Scared-o.”
Looks like Moore isn’t the only one running scared. The LA Times says top Dems are ducking the movie:
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois and former Sen. John Edwards of South Carolina all have staked out positions sharply at odds with Moore’s approach. But none of them is eager to have that fact dragged into the spotlight.
If Moore’s fire-breathing proposal catches on among party activists, who tend to be suspicious of the private sector and supportive of direct government action, the candidates’ pragmatic, consensus-seeking ideas could look like weak-kneed temporizing — much the way their rejection of an immediate pullout from Iraq has drawn heated criticism from antiwar activists.
In “Sicko,” the filmmaker calls for abolishing the insurance industry, putting a tight regulatory collar on pharmaceutical companies and embracing a Canadian-style government-run system.
Advocacy groups are already planning to use the film to pressure the Democratic hopefuls.
“The candidates haven’t sensed the political fever in this country that fundamental change is called for in the healthcare system,” said Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Assn. “What we are going to do is call on the candidates to reconsider their positions.”
Stoking the passions of rank-and-file Democrats for a government takeover of the healthcare system amounts to political folly, respond some liberal veterans of Washington’s healthcare battles.
“To presume that the private sector is going to sit idly by to see the destruction of private coverage I think is a misreading of reality,” said Ron Pollack of the advocacy group Families USA. “I think the presidential candidates understand that if healthcare reform is going to have a chance of success, it will require bipartisanship and a balance of public and private coverage. It cannot be the triumph of one ideology over the other.”
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Michael Moore does what Democrats do. Make a big stink about something with falsehood and then when asked to discuss the item(s), they bail. No moral character, no back bone, just a big bowl of jello that shakes which ever way the winds blows.
Surely Michael Moore hasn’t rendered himself irrelevant??
How oh how can we possibly go on?? Oh my, he may be left with no choice other than joining forces with Algore as they make more movies about Global Warming…
Oh, the shame…
I seem to like to comment in question form here at Michelle’s, but do we hope Michael Moore’s slimy little movie takes effect and radicalizes the base as the article suggests, or is it better that it doesn’t?
I imagine for the long term the latter is best, but short term it might be better if it helps keep Hillary’s coronation from happening.
As for chickening out with the meeting with DeLay, why? Moore’s got the edge, as he’s more than willing to engage in lies to win a debate.
Nice new blog layout.
So when Michael Moore has his long-past-due heart attack, will he instruct the EMS to take him to King-Drew (public health) or Cedars-Sinai (private care)? Maybe he can get airlifted to Cuba for a bypass?
I’m absolutely in favor of a national health scheme if one simple assurance is provided. Absolute equality of access. Make it a felony to pay a private doctor, nurse, pharmacist or to fly overseas for health care services of any type. If Michael Moore, and Ben Affleck, Chelsea Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi’s grandkids all have to wait at the same clinic that my family does, then we have a deal.
I’m sure Moore will donate all the movie’s earnings to fund healthcare.
Communism sure is coming out of the wood works now. They are losing ground and have to do a Battle of The Bulge maneuver in an attempt to recover power. All resources are being called out.
I was raised in the area where the sclockmeister now lives in Northern Michigan and he gave a “premiere” in Bellaire Michigan 8 miles from where I used to live. The locals are eating it up and I am so sad for them. Moore is a piece of debris, exigent protoplasm, detritus - you know stuff nobody really wants around. He is using them and will cast them aside when they no longer serve his purpose. He has also pushed a “film festival” in Traverse City the last 2 years and they are eating it up too. I am so sad for them - they are trying to milk it but, I would sooner tell him no thanks - you push your drivel all yourself.
I have not seen this movie and therefore do not like it.
Michael Moore - ’nuff said…
With nearly any other filmmaker, I’d agree with your snark here mangle1, but not Moore. He’s worked hard to have his benefit of doubt denied with years of shady tactics, shady editing practices, and full on lying.
Plus you can find pirated copies floating around easily, so how do you know people haven’t watched it?
Yeah Mikey do you know why there are so few companies that make vaccines these days? Hint: TRIAL LAWYERS
Of course there is rationing in national health care. Moore, for instance, would probably be denied the knee replacement he keeps talking about because his being obese makes him a bad risk.
If you want to see a movie about what Canadians think about their health care, see The Barbarian Invasions.
I have a good friend in the UK who has been given the run around by the NHS a few years ago. He was gaining weight at an astonishing rate, to which they had no idea what was causing it. So they concluded he was over eating, told him to go in a diet and refused treatment that could have kept him from problems later.
After a few years of going in and out of the hospital, gaining even more weight, he nearly died in 2001. He was admitted to the hospital on 9/11/01… yes the day and very time we were under attack by terrorists.
The doctors finally realized that he was drowning in his own body fluid that had built up so severely that his whole body was swollen to the extreme. What he had all along (and suffered through for nearly three years) was congestive heart failure, and one side of his heart was not working properly.
He spent two weeks in the hospital, where he lost 14 stones of fluid… thats over 100 pounds of just fluid! And that wasn’t all of it…he continued to lose more fluid after he went home… He was able to walk out of the hospital where he wasn’t able to walk before he entered.
My point in bringing this up is this. The NHS told him that he couldn’t have the operation at first because they listed it as “cosmetic” and an optional operation!
Now he needs a additional medical care due to their not diagnosing him properly in the first place and considering his surgery important enough.
In addition, his mother suffers severe arthritis in her hips. She was in her late 40s when they diagnosed it. NHS has refused to give her a very much needed hip replacement, but instead pushes pills on her that soon caused her to have heart problems. She has been in and out of the hospital with heart failure as well.
All the while, people coming in from other countries are given priority status to receive the best medical care… sounds much like Cuba where outsiders are treated better than their own people…
Many of the hospitals in the UK, just like in Cuba, are run down and some closing, including St Richards in Chichester UK who may soon be closed down due to funding.
Michael Moron is nothing but a charlatan and a puffed up self serving.
You mean Micahel Morre’s movie “Sicko” is about healthcare? Who knew? When I heard the title I thought it was his autobiography.
MICHAEL MOORE IS CORRECT!! HE NEVER ARGUES THAT NOT FOR PROFIT INSURANCE COS. WERE BETTER THAN FOR PROFIT ONE. WHAT HE SAID IS GOVERNMENT HANDLE PAPERWORK BETTER THAN THE CURRENT BUREAUCRATIC INS. SYSTEM AND HE IS CORRECT. THE AMERICANS WITH THE BEST HEALTH INS. WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT. SORRY, THEY ARE MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. MICHELLE DO YOU EVER GET TIRED OF BEING WRONG?
Could you please turn off the bold and turn off the caps lock key? We can hear you fine without it. Besides, you’ll scare Michael Chertoff shouting like that.
I don’t think I’d cry if we were to abolish health insurance. I personally feel it hinders the free market from working by putting a middle man in the supply/demand equation. The rest of his suggestions I could do without.
National Health Care is to the elderly what abortion is to the fetus. As incompetent as the government is why would anyone want them in charge of their health.
Please explain to me how a medically obese person such as Michael Moore is giving health tips to anyone. How is it that such a ardent consumer of both calories and energy, Al Gore, is heralded as a champion of the Earth ?
And I do want to know the specific health plan , if any, that a very wealthy Michael Moore provides his employees.
The hyprocrasy of the left is never ending.
Heh, Michelle breaks out with teh funneh.
Nice Chertoff reference Michelle..lol
Anyone visiting Moore’s website lately knows he’s nothing more than a ‘flavor of the day’ opportunist.
His ’causes’ that he so forcefully seems to champion ( Iraq, Immigration, etc. ) all have dropped to the bottom of his page in lieu of his self-promotion of his new movie. No more headlines about soldiers dying, it’s all about SICKO! ( And by that, I mean to imply both the movie and him )
Ha!
Moore has a problem. He’s been making propaganda films for so long that if he strays from the field, it’s either garbage (Canadian Bacon, anyone?) or people assume it’s more of the same.
But seriously trying to state that government can make health care less complicated seriously needs some privately-paid psychiatric evaluation.
Now THAT’s funny!
Michael Moore is basically a cynic who has figured out a way to make a living by playing on prejudices/stereotypes against the U.S. of A. for the benefit of America haters abroad and at home. He’s not interested in telling the truth or even presenting a fair argument. He’s only interested in telling the amen choir what they already believe or fooling the gullible. This is why he often resorts to misleading edits, fudging facts, and bizarre pronouncements such as the presence of Northrup Grummond in Littleton, CO somehow lead to the shootings at Columbine High School. The guy is as phony as it gets.
But it’s paid off for him nicely.
‘Sicko’ sounds like the title of Moore’s autobiography. Just looking at the obese slug make me sick.
Rosie ODonnell called Michael Moore a ‘genius’! Now that’s SICKO.
Government more efficient than the private sector? I think that is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
The private sector is far superior in efficiencies than any form of government. They (private business)are held accountable, and as we all know even if there was accountability in government they could care less. Their jobs are secure.
I’m just amazed that anyone would go see his films.
Government health care is the last thing this country needs. Who wants to pay for health care for people that are too lazy to get a job, or for 12,000,000+ illegals that don’t belong here. If Michael Moore is so concerned, maybe he could spend some of his millions to help pay for health care.
80 years ago Mr. Moore’s friends would have been calling him Herr Goebbels.
He’s the new socialist propaganda minister.
There was a recent editorial in the WSJ in which a physician was upset that Medicare/Medicaid spend one million dollars per physician. Now as a physician, I can tell you that we do not get paid that much. The average doctor salary is somewhere around $300,000 per year, of this Medicare represents 30 to 50% of the amount. So what does the government do with the other $850,000. This is the type to expenditure that Moore is advocating.
Also, consider that profit rules everything. Take away or try to modify profit and it has been shown that the results are not pretty. He complains about the lack of companies not researching vaccinationns. Why? The companies left when their profit was modified or eliminated and the regulations and legal issues became excessive. Yet that is what he wants to do with the whole system.
We have problems. Insurance companies stink. Yet the current system is one set up by the Feds.
Finally, if we in medicine forego profit, will Hollywood do the same? It is criminal what we have to pay to see bad films.
One thing you can say about Michael Moore….he knows the power of film, especially documentaries. Much of the public will view this movie and accept it is a viable solution. ‘Bowling for Columbine’ took a lot of liberties with facts, and exploited emotions….(as i’m sure 9/11 did, although I did not see that one). However, a majority of the population in this country, like it or not, refuses to double check facts or even question what is on film (as well as print).
That is what make this guy dangerous. He appeals to a wide range….many who remain ignorant (by accident or purpose).
More people need to challange this guy to open debate. The more he refuses to debate….the more that fact needs to be brought front and center.
MikeB, some of us who have had government health insurance would have to disagree with you. When I worked for the state, my health insurance was pathetic. I could only go to certain doctors who were in a city over a 40-minute drive away. I also had to wait weeks to get to see a doctor, and seeing a specialist was such a long, drawn out process, that it just was n’o worth the trouble.
I now work in the private sector and my employer offers great health insurance. I can see the doctor of my choice when I need to. I can also get tests done at the hospital of my choice. My plan requires a referral from my primary-care doctor to see a specialist, but this is very easy to get. My care through private insurance has been superior in every way to government insurance.
Forget the usual suspects that you can always count on to push for national health care, the people we really need to worry about falling for the Michael Moore “prescription” are those who are dissatisfied with the current health care situation for good reason. The almost mandatory third-party insurance health care setup in America has already given us many of the ills of “socialized” medicine, the biggest one being the disconnect between supply and demand where the patient doesn’t have to worry about how much it costs or how often he shows up at the doctor’s office as long as it’s covered. This has led to the skyrocketing medical costs, rationing of health care by HMOs, and the standard bureaucratic clumsiness you can expect from such an operation. We are already over halfway to national health care, and the Moore-Hillary crowd is going to use this “crisis” (that people like them brought about to begin with) as an excuse to give us the full nightmare of wait-in-line medicine. Even though Mr. Irresponsible Diet is partly right that the current setup we have has problems (but still far preferable to the Potemkin Village make-believe world of Cuban, Canadian, and European health care), the direction to move is not to march forward to the big government solution but to move back to the time of pay-as-you-go and optional health insurance of previous generations. Ask any older American that you know about the cost and accessibility of health care then and now and you will find out what decades of taking consumers out of the medical marketplace and injecting third-party insurance companies, government bureaucrats, and tort lawyers in their place has done to health care in this country. But no way should we go whole-hog to the Michael Moore fantasy vision of medical Nirvana. There will no place to sneak across the border for quality medical care if that ever comes about.
Moore
/snort
’nuff said
Michael Moore is a loon! If we move to socialized medicine in this country, our hospitals will turn into the medical equivalent of the DMV. I’m sorry, but I don’t want anyone at the DMV doing heart surgery on me!
And why does he believe that pharmaceutical companies are going to continue to pour billions of dollars and years of research into the development of new drugs and vaccines?? He is a fool! They aren’t going to do it out of the goodness of their heart, but they are willing to do it for profits! This guy is worse then Rosie O’Donnell! He makes me irate!
Where does it end. How much Anti-American garbage will we allow ourselves to be subjected to before we do something. We should not even view films like this when we already know it has no place here .If there is no market there will be no product.
I pay for my own health ins. and every year the premiums go up. But the doctors and hospitals are overbilling . I have seen it . The ins. co. does not pay the whole bill then the doctor will bill the patient the balance . If I call the ins. co. they will pay the rest of the bill. They are playing a little game and we are stuck in the middle.
As far as quality of healthcare I believe that the USA is one of the if not the best in the world.
Okay, I apologize for using BOLD. But, still why can’t Conservatives ever admit that some nations in this world do some things better than the U.S.? Yes, statistically, France has better health care. It is a fact, deal with it.
France’s healthcare is ranked #1 by the WHO but it is also predicted to be 70 billion euros in debt by 2020. No thanks.
Mickey Moore doesnt know he what is talking about.
The only thing France does better than the United States is speak French !
I thought Bowling for Columbine is his only film exposing a issue and attempting to make a positive change… here are my thoughts on the matter and some posts here:
1. Michael Moore: Fantastic and savvy businessman who is milking the extreme left all the way to the bank and got the extreme right howling so much they do most of the advertising for him!
2. DaleC: A truly confused patriot. As an American I love my country but refuse to get lost in the USA #1 child’s play.
3. If Moore is indeed running from the Delay’s debate challenge, I see his 15 minutes coming to an end… tick tick tick!
supersean . Thank you for the patriot comment but to assume that you are some how more in touch with the reality of what our country has become than I am is simply delusional . I made that comment in response to the constant anti-American statements. Childish maybe but in no way confused.
ditto #5 davidleerothmann. Except they have to undertake that privledge for a period of five years BEFORE it goes into effect for the rest of us. I believe that would be enough time for them to be screaming to be let released from their nightmare back into the private sector once again.
DaleC #44
I doubt it
Doctors go to medical school for 2 reasons: (1) they want to help people, and (2) they want to become rich, just like you and me. Ask Moore what quality of doctors will we have if doctors are paid the equivalent of a civil servant.
The problem with health insurance is that it no longer works like insurance. How much do you think auto insurance would cost if every oil change, brake pad, fan belt, tune-up, wiper blade, tire, and TANK OF GAS was covered except for a $10 co-pay? Nobody would be able to afford it.
Unfortunately, HMOs created an entitlement mentality, and nobody thinks they should have to pay for ANYTHING healthcare related. Until people re-assume responsibility for nominal office visits, prescriptions, and other smaller items, and let insurance cover only the bigger costs, we will never fix the problem.
People will cough up hundreds of dollars for concerts, sporting events, ipods and video games, but they won’t get their teeth cleaned “if its not covered”.
People need to have a stake in their healthcare costs. What if you could save a couple of bucs on a prescription if you went to pharmacy A instead of pharmacy B? What if a doctor ten minutes further down the road only charged $50 for an office visit instead of $60 like the Doc across the street?
Spare me… and keep the free market alive
MikeB.
Your comment suggest that any problem we have with health care in this country can be solved by the government. The fact is that much of what you don’t like has been created by the government. If they would leave us alone and get the lawyers off our backs, then you would be amazed at the result. For instance, did you know that it is against the law to render free care to people in the US? This and many other rules, regulations and oversight are killing the profession. As one who lives in Louisiana, I can tell you that if the government had left NO alone, it would have recovered from Katrina in much faster time. O’ my fault, it still hasn’t recovered, so much for an example of our government in action.
My $0.02.
How can a government-run universal health care system not bring to mind the fact that the government has a horrendous track record on the “managed care” that is supplied to our veterans?
The main problem with the most advanced health care system in the world (ours) is lawyers like John Edwards. We need tort reform in a big way, and I am disappointed that it has dropped off the radar. We are the most litigious society….
Anyway, back to the subject, the hot air vent is great, but it would be good to note that our problems began in the USA when the US Govt made the Medical Associations quit policing their own ranks, and the FDA greatly increased in size, bureaucracy and requirements on physicians and hospitals to meet their bureaucratic decisions on treatments. It was no longer a doctor’s decision on prescriptions, it had to meet FDA guidelines, even if they were years out of date.
You are on to something Single Malt. Your comparison to auto insurance is apt. It is true that HMOs take market pricing out of the system. The other side of that is that a few huge insurance companies can price gouge at will. So, if you have a 3rd party (neither Dr. or patient) controlloing prices, shouldn’t it be a single payer?
David, First, I agree with you about the private sector being better in most cases to the government (fed, state, and local) in solving most problems. Katrina relief is a perfect example of government incompetence. However, I think it is wrong to blame lawyers for extremely high health care costs. The truth is that there is no free market in insurance (as discussed above) and insurance companies charge doctors high premiums because they can, not because of allegedly friviolous law suits. All studies show that such suits have been in decline for 15 years, yet premiums keep going up.
#46 on my soap box .
Why am I not surprised !
In 1998, I had the misfortune to watch my father die with pancreatic cancer. He was retired from the University System of Georgia. He had Blue Cross / Blue Shield through the state. He was never denied any form of treatment or care. He went to the best hospitals and doctors in the metro Atlanta area.
In March of 2000, I suffered what should have been, medically speaking, a fatal heart attack. I was in Savannah, Georgia for St. Patrick’s day weekend. I left my wallet at home for security reasons and had my driver’s license and gas card in my card case. I had no insurance information with me when I went to the hospital. I received immediate care at the first hospital, was transferred to another hospital for a cardiac surgeon, spent a week in CCU, and received excellent treatment. It was only later that I was able to provide my insurance information to the hospitals, the doctors, and the ambulance service.
What I witnessed in both cases was a health care system that is more concerned with treatment than money. I think Micheal Moore is just looking for another way to make money. Good for him. I like capitalism. I just hope the people that believe his rhetoric have coverage for mental health care.
The fact that Moore cancelled is not at all surprising. It’s the same with the Democrats who are absolutely scared to death at the prospect of debating to questions posed by Fox News reporters: when the discussion seques from fawning left-wing talking heads to an intelligent conversation - or, egad, debate(!) - the lefties always run away. This is no small aspect of their behavior to call them out on.
Although in Moore’s case, it’s alot worse, because he’s such a strident attention hound to begin with, making films about himself complaining about things he doesn’t like. For HIM to turn down a television appearance shows just how scared he really is of a logical and well-reasoned confrontation.
One more thing: To those who think government is so incompetent, why do you think the US government and non-accountable “consultants” can make Iraq a Jeffersonian democracy?
“However, I think it is wrong to blame lawyers for extremely high health care costs.”
Why? Frivolous lawsuits may not be on the rise, but they still constitute 1/3 of the total. Even if damages aren’t awarded, lawyers must still be paid.
The US Chamber Institute for Tort Reform has estimated the average annual cost for a family of 4, as a result of such suits, at $3520 in increased healthcare costs. Another study (albeit hotly contested) puts the estimate at almost 3 times that amount.
Legal costs, merited or not, are driving Medical costs to unsustainable levels. Damages, when rewarded, are getting larger, and so companies must carry ever more expensive insurance to cover those costs.
rush is a fat pig and moore is a health guru. I wouldnt go to either for health advice.
teljax… how is Moore a health guru? He is a fat slob who spews half truths about everything just to get his 2 seconds of fame.
Rena:
“how is Moore a health guru? He is a fat slob who spews half truths about everything just to get his 2 seconds of fame.”
You forgot “disgustingly badly shaven”…he’s a fat, disgustingly badly shaven slob who spews … HALF truths?! Ooooh, feeling generous tonight, aren’t we?
Interesting that my last post re Malkin’s ties to Rand and it’s think tank solutions to the health care crisis–more bureaucracy–was eliminated. I get it now. We should only add posts that bolster Michelles’s point of view. That I have worked in health care for 30 years provides me with no credibility.
<p>If the pharmaceutical companies are losing money year after year, why then do they waste their money on free give aways for doctors and hospitals These items are nothing more than efforts to to influence prescription practices and are corrupting the practice of medicine. Michelle should take a tour of her local hospital’s oncology dept and ask a nurse to show her a supply closets filled with blankets emblazoned with the names of drugs, tote bages baring the names of pharmaceutical companies, pillows, pads, pens and others items. None of these items can be distributed to patients because we cannot promote products. All of them taking up space in some closet and all of them adding to the waste and high cost of medical care in this country. Then she should ask about the pharmaceutical company sponsored lunches and “educational programs” (promos for their latest drugs.) Again, more waste. But more importantly a corruption of the provider patient relationship.</p>
I’m sure Moby Mike will “donate” his earning to McBurgers
My “anecdotal proof” has been gathered over thirty years of clinical, one on one work with patients. I now work with cancer patients, and regularly address issues of denied coverage of needed medications. If you want to dismiss me and my work that is your prerogative.
You choose to take the words of a PhD think tank employee over the experience of those dealing directly with patients.
Monk:I now work with cancer patients, and regularly address issues of denied coverage of needed medications
Anyone who has had Heath insurance has been denied coverage of one sort or another. But if you are trying to convince anyone that the feds wont deny certain coverage to certain patients, all I can say is wake up. They do it every day already. BTW my wife is an Oncology Nurse at a Charity hospital in Louisiana. Neither of us can imagine Federal health care being any better then what the State provides
“But if you are trying to convince anyone that the feds wont deny certain coverage to certain patients, all I can say is wake up.”
No I am not trying to say this, and I don’t know how you arrived at this conclusion. I do battle with Medicare and Medicaid, in addition to private insurers.
Our current system, which often denies the less costly care, ends up costing us more as patients wind up in ER’s or being admitted. And this is not to mention the cost of paying these bureaucrats who make these decisions.
Hello all,
I would say that i am pretty scandalized by this “hot air vent” pseudo journalism. This is really insane and simplistic(in the harmful way). Oh yes socialized medicine is evil! cause we cannot make profit and so we cannot develop new treatment. but about the drug industry lets think about that, it has almost no regulation at all, new drugs research cost more and more. And apart that it is well known that drug industry keep developing drugs for pathology which were already addressed correctly. But cause of the patent expiration and in order to keep making big profit drug industry continue to develop drugs for disease suffered by the mass, risking to replace effective but patent free drug, by a new one which will allow them to make a lot of profit with the risk of secondary effect for the patient. so clearly reinventing the wheel is a waste. first a waste of resources as the researchers working on reinventing drugs for theses pathology can not work on new disease treatment. secondly as it cost more and more to discover new drugs and as it forces drug companies to “reinvent the wheel”, it raises few questions: is this system the best? how long will we be able to continue discovering new drugs? who is going to pay? at whom expenses?
Maybe it is time to regulate the drug industry ? maybe it is time for better results? maybe we can get cure at fair price for everyone if we organize the research resources worldwide in a more effective way? what has been done in internationalizing the space program could maybe be done with the drug research too. This will only be possible if government and by derivation through democratic process the people around the world express a need for more humanity in this world.
That makes too much sense. Expect to be grilled on that point.