Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

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Health care advances in Cuba

According to the Associated Press as cited in the Post article, "Cuba has made recent advancements in biotechnology and exports its treatments to 40 countries around the world, raking in an estimated $100 million a year. ... In 2004, the U.S. government granted an exception to its economic embargo against Cuba and allowed a California drug company to test three cancer vaccines developed in Havana."

http://alternet.org/envirohealth/50911/?page=1

Specializes in Critical Care.
Hey hey! You edited it after I read it . . . .:monkeydance:

Thank you kind sir . . .:bowingpur:icon_hug:

Hey, again . . . .edited to add I was going to ask you about your girlfriend . . . . great name!

steph

We're taking a few days and going to San Antonio and Carlsbad Caverns starting tomorrow.

You know what Bridget Jones says about that: a mini-break must means true love.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Hmm now we're into politics.

How ever did a thread about a MM film stray so far afield?

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Specializes in Critical Care.
How ever did a thread about a MM film stray so far afield?

The title though, you have to admit, is quite apt for a MM propaganda piece.

Sicko.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/michael_moores_sickness.html

"Is all that ails the U.S. health-care system that it's not run by a Communist dictatorship? That has long been a premise of apologists for Fidel Castro who extol the virtues of medical care on his totalitarian island nation."

"The only reason to fantasize about Cuban health care is to stick a finger in the eye of the Yanquis. For the likes of Michael Moore, the true glory of Cuba is less its health care than the fact that it is an enemy of the United States. That's why romanticizing Cuban medicine isn't just folly, but itself qualifies as a kind of sickness."

~faith,

Timothy.

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How ever did a thread about a MM film stray so far afield?

(On purpose ;)).

steph

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We're taking a few days and going to San Antonio and Carlsbad Caverns starting tomorrow.

You know what Bridget Jones says about that: a mini-break must means true love.

~faith,

Timothy.

Taking the kids? ;)

Back on topic . . . . . propaganda is a very good definition of what MM does. I'm still interested in whether this is a hit piece on nurses and docs too. Guess I'll go google it for awhile . .now that I have a day off.

steph

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The pharmaceutical industry received reports from Cannes, according to Ken Johnson, senior vice-president of the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), who says a friend called him from France after seeing the flick. PhRMA, whose membership includes Amgen, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson, issued a statement that chastises Moore's "latest escapades" as "finding new ways to advance his political agenda."

Instead, the drug company group says, "a review of America's health-care system should be balanced, thoughtful, and well-researched to pin down what works and what needs to be improved. You won't get that from Michael Moore."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19033249/page/2/

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It's just unfortunate that his comparison will not be accurate.

It will show that a media moment will afford the cherry-picked guests access to Cuban medicine that the average Cuban citizen does not have.

You have once again been duped by Michael Moore.

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It's just unfortunate that his comparison will not be accurate.

It will show that a media moment will afford the cherry-picked guests access to Cuban medicine that the average Cuban citizen does not have.

You have once again been duped by Michael Moore.

I assume it means "you" plural?

I haven't seen the film so cannot possibly know what is in it.

Even when I do see it i know that I don't know enough about health care in other countries to be certain.

I do know we have a real crisis in the United States health care. Everyone is at risk. Insured and not insured.

Glad for a film that will interest people in discussing health care.

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Specializes in Cardiac Surg, IR, Peds ICU, Emergency.

It's sad that people will boil this travesty of media down to a gratefulness that someone who has a history of remarkable untruthfulness and hypocrisy will be the one to compare US healthcare to Cuba, and thereby spark discussion.

What this film won't mention is the people who were selectively considered (because they were 9/11 workers with healthcare problems), but then excluded from going.

Not sure why this healthcare was good enough for a few, but not the rest. God forbid MM lose any money on this film. God knows he didn't make as much as he expected on his Halliburton stock, even after claiming that he didn't own a single share of any kind of stock.

I wonder if he'll be selling the thousands of shares he owns in one of the major pharmaceutical companies.

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