Archive for June 19th, 2007

Wow, I never go into a M.Moore movie thinking that it will piss me off, and yet they often do. I don’t think I have been this mad since I saw the documentary “Why We Fight” (Not M.Moore).

Tonight I watched the movie “Sicko”, which I admit, I downloaded off the net. I will however see it on the screen and probably purchase the movie on DVD, so before that becomes the issue, let it go.

The movie examines the health-care systems of the western world. I have to admit that what really disgusted me was how nonchalant and funny it was to foreigners that anyone would have to pay for medical care, especially if you could not afford it.

I come from an interesting perspective here, my mother is a doctor, my fiancee is in cancer research. My fiancee is also in the position of needing medication for the rest of her life. Medication that is not cheap. My mother is a family practitioner that because of health insurance and malpractice insurance is contemplating giving up her favorite part of being a doctor, delivering babies.

There is something seriously F*CKED up in this nation where socialized medicine is so frowned upon, and our politicians are all in the pockets of the insurance industry.

Something needs to be done! First, don’t take my word for it, see this movie. Then after you are sufficiently pissed, write your senators, congressperson, and most of all presidential candidates. It is important that this issue not be ignored in the upcoming election. This problem is right up there with getting out of Iraq, but should be far less controversial. The only reason it is controversial at all is because the government has been messing with our heads simply because they have been bought and paid for.

No More. Write, call, be pissed off. Watch the movie!