Health Insurance Whistleblower Details How the Industry Attacked Michael Moore's 'SiCKO'

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[Fig1024]

Insurance as a concept is inherently socialist. Insurance works by getting a collective of people to put money in a common pool, and then certain people who need it get money from that pool. If you really hate socialist ideas, you should also be against all forms of insurance. Of course that would be silly, which goes to show that fear of all things socialist is silly.

[Lapeth1]

I feel sorry for you guys, who have to live in a country where so many people lump this issue, along with many other issues, into the "big scary socialism bin" and use that label to scare people off of something you really need as a society.

I guess they'd diss "socialized police", "socialized firefighters", "socialized schools" etc. if those things had that label. Why not just call it "regular medicine" or "non-greedy medicine"?

[1LaOriental]

@monde333 Thanks for your reply. I live in the US also and agree with the equation you make about how US feels about socialism. I believe we need smaller, democratically run local businesses as a start, with human needs being the driving force, not private profit.

[monde333]

@1LaOriental You are right; read my reply above to usariofuturista...I'm really more of a socialist than a capitalist; I only try to deal with the reality that most people in the USA where I live would consider socialism about the same level of Being Evil as molesting kids...and the old-fashioned capitalism I referred to is long over and gone. I agree w/ you - corporatism IS extreme capitalism. WE NEED REGULATED BUSINESS, not a handful of 1%-er trillion- and billionaires ruling us.

[monde333]

@usuariofuturista Apology unnecessary; convo should be free to disagree.  Just wanted to clarify: re 'utopia of capitalism', my beliefs are really closer to socialism. I only try to balance this w/ reality. I live in the USA and corporatist media has made 'socialism' equal to 'satanism', and even saying I'm a liberal in some circles equates to admitting "I abuse children" or some similar abomination. I should've said "some aspects of capitalism are good", since some are not!

[1LaOriental]

@monde333 Unfortunately, capitalism leads to corporatism. It is the belief in unlimited growth which is ultimately unsustainable and maximization of profit above the needs of people among other things, which makes capitalism unable to provide a high quality existence for so many.

[1LaOriental]

@Lapeth1 Thank you for speaking the truth about "big, scary socialism" They have cleverly and of course very deliberately brainwashed people in the US to be terrified of a word which they know little if anything, about. Fortunately, cold, hard reality and the Occupy movements are helping to change that! Peace.

[Scallopshell98]

Nixon is burning in hell now.

[saddemgargouri]

@tasintsar first of all cuba is ranked 39 th and USA 37 , yes cuba is worst than USA , but cuba as a third world poor country is doing a lot better than USA , the biggest economy in the world . That's because the dictator Castro had a nice health care plan , actually cuba is one of the best countries in the world in preventive medicine , that's how it manage to get actually excellent result for low investment in health care

[sadathusain]

0 dislikes. HELL YEAH!

[tasintsar]

@beduin024

"Not that bad" != better than American when it's further down the list, regardless of what Moore would like you to believe.

[beduin024]

@tasintsar

Cuba is a poor third world nation. The fact that they are listed among with the developed countries shows that their healthcare system is not that bad.