>As usual with a Michael Moore movie, his Sicko was roundly attacked by his critics. I'm kind of amazed that this movie passed by rather quickly. The topic of healthcare was front and center for about 2 weeks.

It's being advertised as available on DVD now, the major selling point stated as "Michael Moore's best comedy yet!".



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>Although in many cases the focus was on the fact that Michael dared to take a trip to Cuba.
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>The problem with the Health Care system here, is much like the problem with the Tax system. There are many, many people who have a vested interest in keeping it status quo. There are many companies built around either Health Care or calculating taxes.
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>>>One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved.
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>>>Woodland Hills-based Health Net Inc. avoided paying $35.5 million in medical expenses by rescinding about 1,600 policies between 2000 and 2006. During that period, it paid its senior analyst in charge of cancellations more than $20,000 in bonuses based in part on her meeting or exceeding annual targets for revoking policies, documents disclosed Thursday showed.
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>>>Now I know according to the greedy, selfish among us this is just an example of capitalism working at it's finest. But I find it kind of disgusting how many lives have probably been ruined over this.
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>>>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure9nov09,0,4409342.story?coll=la-home-center
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>>Just a couple of days ago I saw on Dutch tv the Oprah Show. Guests were Michael Moore, a rep from the insurance companies, a professor and a woman who had testified in the White House back in the nineties. This woman had testified about her job: to approve or reject requests for payment of medical treatments. She felt shame because she had rejected far too many requests due to pressures by her employer and finally she had quit that job.
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>>I'm not saying here that the Dutch system is ideal - it has fallacies also - and I'm also not even sure this particular problem is not a problem here, but some of the other things that were said in that show really made my eyebrows rise.