Stuart Browning and Ezra Klein appeared on Kudlow & Co to discuss SiCKO. It was an interesting juxtaposition of communication styles: Browning’s straightforward discussion of the film versus Klein’s fretful attempts to change the subject. A typical example of the latter involved Klein’s gratuitous lurch to the VA:
Rand corporation ranked VA highest on quality. The […]
It would appear that Ingrid Newkirk, of PETA, is concerned about Michael Moore’s health:
Although we think that your film could actually help reform America’s sorely inadequate health care system, there’s an elephant in the room, and it is you. With all due respect, no one can help but notice that a weighty health issue is […]
The man who actually coined the phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” was a 19th century con artist named Joseph Bessimer. “Paper Collar Joe,” as he was known to the police, would surely have recognized a soul mate in Michael Moore. For, when it comes to what Joe called “bilking the rubes,” Moore is […]
I have discussed the mythology surrounding “the uninsured” here, here, and here. If you’re still not convinced that “the uninsured crisis” is a chimera, watch Uninsured in America. If you still don’t get it after watching this film, you are probably impervious to objective data.
Now that Sicko has been made available for viewing by serious commentators, it is becoming obvious that the film is even more disingenuous than expected.
Moore’s trademark combination of anecdote and innuendo paints such an obviously false picture of American health care that it is angering a lot of people who actually care about the […]
Fred Thompson believes that Federalism is the key to meaningful tort reform. He writes that, rather than relying on Washington to solve the problem of malpractice abuse, we should look to the states. To support this proposition, he cites the Texas experience:
Only a few years ago, Texas was losing doctors fast. Rising malpractice insurance […]
Advocates of government-run health care constantly insinuate that “the uninsured” are unable to get health coverage. This canard, as I have pointed out before, is refuted by the facts. More contradictory evidence can be found in the Dallas Morning News, which discusses the large number of uninsured college students:
An estimated 36 percent of those attending […]
No matter how much evidence piles up showing that big government social programs are wasteful, inefficient, and costly, the “progressive community” is unable to extricate itself from its long-standing love affair with statism. Thus, imposing socialized medicine on the American public is its highest domestic priority.
CNS reports that this subject is on the minds and […]
While no sensible person would deny that American health care is in need of reform, the shrill tones with which the advocates of socialized medicine lament the “crisis” are seriously over the top. This phenomenon is typified by the film Sicko, which portrays a system in total meltdown. Michael Tanner responds to Moore and his […]
The next time some “progressive” tells you that Canadian health care is superior to the U.S. system, ask him the following question: If their system is so great, why do the political leaders of that country eschew it for private care? The Montreal Gazette reports the following:
Former prime ministers Paul Martin, Jean Chretien and Joe […]
