Michael Moore is extending his crusade to health care. The high school graduate, turned desperate documentarian in his late thirties has cast his glare on the 'system', whose obvious choice for big meany is insurance companies. Maybe it's the desperate 'Hey I'm from Michigan' thing that attracts viewers to his work. I only watch his videos on DVD at the low Netflix cost of about $.39, so I don't feel that I contribute too much to his success. I can almost guarantee that if you have any libertarian inclination 'Sicko' is not for you. 
In Bowling for Columbine we watched Moore assail film legend Charlton Heston with a lame emotional plea that juxtapositioned a solid right to ownership with responsibility for a tragic event. The whole Fahrenheit 9/11 effort didn't reveal a single item or insight that wasn't out there on the Internet on some conspiratorial or legitimate level. I'm guessing Moore never goes after the legal system or the government's hand in recessitating the dying HMO organizations in the early seventies. 'Sicko' promises to be a ninety minute emotional bitchfest with one policy in mind. Single payer should be me, not some Albany or Washington agency.
One of the problems with the epitaph 'socialist' is that it is come to mean more than the traditional notion of the state controlling the means of production to use good old fashioned Maxist terminology. But when Moore says;
We need to cut out the middleman. Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.
. . . look out. The problem is the nature of the HMO. An individual should be able to contract out for the type of coverage they want or need. The artificial edifice of the quasi-state and insurance industry has been the root of the problem. Massive liability may be the sustaining nutrients.
He goes on to drown himself in his own urine;
When you ask people what they want, they say they want to have universal healthcare, but they don't want a big government program. What will it take to get people to come around to your point of view?
They've been inundated with a lot of propaganda about the single-payer system. But government is supposed to be of, by, and for us. That means we're in charge of it. If we say the government sucks, we're kind of saying that we suck.
We do kinda suck, especially if we abuse and pound our bodies with crap for a lifetime and still have the expectation that others should take responsibility for prolonging whatever pathetic vestige of a life clings to our dimished shells and souls. We're not in charge. Bureaucrats, politicians and major media speak at us and tell us what to do.
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