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dknv · 2010-03-28, 05:45 PM

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Tee heee! I had long-ago donated those bootstraps to someone who needed it more at the time than I did. My bad...

Anyone here see Michael Moore's 'Sicko'? I know, I know, he's a sensationalist m-f ... but still ...

One part of his story talked about some of the 9/11 rescue survivors who are now (at the time of that movie) suffering from health conditions that are likely the result of working in the hell zone of the disaster area to save people. Some of them are/were fighting the health and insurance system to get treatment for their conditions; and were being denied! But that's not the only part of this story that enrages me. Michael Moore takes these people on a boat to Guantanamo Bay, to ask if they can be treated there - since the criminals housed there were getting US Government treatment for free, why not non-criminals too?. No can do, their boat might be shot at by the guards, so they motor on to Cuba. In Havana, these heroes get treatments for free! And then, the Cuban firefighters honor them as the heroes they really are. When I think about this scenario - I just wish I were a lawyer who could sue the asses of some of these people who are benefitting from the injustice of our current healthcare system.

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dknv EJ207 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: 39n53, 119w90 Posts: 2,698 Car: RX-8 Class: CS maybe	^ ^ ^ Tee heee! I had long-ago donated those bootstraps to someone who needed it more at the time than I did. My bad... Anyone here see Michael Moore's 'Sicko'? I know, I know, he's a sensationalist m-f ... but still ... One part of his story talked about some of the 9/11 rescue survivors who are now (at the time of that movie) suffering from health conditions that are likely the result of working in the hell zone of the disaster area to save people. Some of them are/were fighting the health and insurance system to get treatment for their conditions; and were being denied! But that's not the only part of this story that enrages me. Michael Moore takes these people on a boat to Guantanamo Bay, to ask if they can be treated there - since the criminals housed there were getting US Government treatment for free, why not non-criminals too?. No can do, their boat might be shot at by the guards, so they motor on to Cuba. In Havana, these heroes get treatments for free! And then, the Cuban firefighters honor them as the heroes they really are. When I think about this scenario - I just wish I were a lawyer who could sue the asses of some of these people who are benefitting from the injustice of our current healthcare system. Last edited by dknv; 2010-03-28 at 05:49 PM.