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Monday, June 25, 2007
Star Parker :: Townhall.com Columnist
Michael Moore's latest scam
by Star Parker
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


"If you end up with an exotic disease that requires a lot of care, you're screwed. For example, the waiting list for any kind of major surgery is long and for things like knee replacements you can wait for three years. Alzheimer's drugs aren't available on the National Health Service because they're too expensive. More and more people are paying for private health insurance cover, and more and more companies are making it part of the perks package. So, Britain will end up with a two-tier system before too long where the "rich" get good private cover and the poor or uninsured have no alternative to the NHS."

Moore and his rich left wing Hollywood buddies won't have to worry about the inevitable shortages and distortions of socialized medicine. They'll simply be living in their own private care universe.

Cuba? Call any Cuban expatriate here, and I've talked to a few, and they'll tell you that the shoddy local care is never what a foreign visitor would see. What we do know is that Cuba has the highest abortion rates, highest suicide rates, and lowest fertility rates in our hemisphere. And we also know that any Cuban that tries to exercise free speech, like Michael Moore luxuriates in here, would soon become a non-person.

We do need health care reform in the United States. But problems get solved through analysis and integrity and not with sensationalism and exploitation.

We already have massive government involvement in our health care markets and there is good reason to believe that this is at least part of the problem. A third party payer system subsidized by the tax code and a patch work of state regulated programs and, hence, no national market.

Government run Medicare and Medicaid are in fiscal crisis and rote with distortions, waste, fraud, and abuse

Michael Moore thinks health care should be free. Why doesn't he distribute this important work explaining why for free? After all, he's said "...I made this film because I want the world to change."

When word got out the other day that a pirated edition made its way onto the Internet, his friend and distributor, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, went into high alert taking online countermeasures to prevent distribution.

Moore himself, ever cool, said, "The more people who see it the better, so I am happy this is happening."

So give it away for free, Michael. You'll be ecstatic.

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Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay.
 
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Moore's New Project
Has anyone heard about Michael Moore's next project?
It's about a fat Canadian hypocrite who makes millions off gullible American fools with slick propaganda about the inherent corruption of our system.
He's so rich that he sits around eating steak and lobster and caviar all day, when one day he gets so obese that he gets congestive heart failure!
He needs an ambulance, a highly skilled paramedic, an talented OR team, an internal medicine specialist, and a cardiac surgeon to save his miserable Canadian bacon...BUT there are none of these available in the US because socialized medicine has become the model for healthcare since the release of "Sicko"!!!!

YouMakeMeWantToHideMyWallet
Our resident TH troll has spent quite a bit of time extolling the virtues of the movie "Sicko".
You can boil down his beliefs to this, in his own words:

"Democracy is about the power to meet the needs of you and your community as a whole".

No kidding?
I didn't realize that...are you a Constitutional scholar?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that America was a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC whose PRINCIPLES are those expressed in the Bill of Rights!
Do you see anything in there about "meeting the needs of the community"??
Americans have the right to PERSUE happiness, not to have it given to them (at someone else's expense).
What you are espousing is SOCIALISM, and I say no thanks. Good news for you "Laugh"...you can always move to Canada or France to get your needs met.

Anyway...keep your grubby hands OFF MY WALLET.

PS: Every time I hear about Michael Moore it reminds me of H.L. Menkin's line:
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public!"
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