Michael Moore: Sicko

The title does NOT directly refer to Michael Moore's "movie" titled "Sicko". It refers to Michael Moore himself. Michael Moore is one sick, anti-American individual--consumed by hate and bitterness amounting to self-loathing (along with loathing of everything about his own country). Yes, Micharel Moore HATES. He hates his own country. He hates profits. He hates business. He hates capitalism. He hates free markets. He hates insurance companies (a trait he sort of shares with me). He hates what he perceives to be the American psyche (see "Bowling for Columbine", which was an ANTI-AMERICAN movie, and NOT an "anti-gun" movie--see my review in the archives of this blog). In short, Michael Moore HATES. That hatred has consumed him, and he now consists of nothing else.


This cannot be a review of "Sicko", the movie. I only saw l0 minutes of that (with the fasciantion of one watching a train wreckk), and only because I happpened to see it on my cable "guide" and was curious. I can review MIchael Moore with fairness. He is a hating sicko. I cannot review "Sicko" with fairness, but I can make some observations.


Michale Moore is no longer funny. He has always been a bitter, unfair hater. But once upon a time he could be hysterically funny--at times. He has lost the humor, because his bitterness and hate has consumed him.


Michael Moore is incapable of understanding an issue. Back when he was funny, he could effectively ridicule people--playing an ad hominem game instead of actually "debating" an issue. Michael Moore has never been interested in debate. He makes the mistake of being numbingly serious in "Sicko" (the ten minutes I saw), and thuse totally exposs hhis intellectual deficiencies.


Michael Moore wants "universal health care" Of course, he seems to fail to recognize that we HAVE "universal health care". What we don't have is universal halth INSURANCE. Every single person in this country can receive health care. Go to the emergency room and see if you will be turned away. The poor have Medicaid. The elederly have Medicare. The middle class have a problem, but it is a problem of MONEY (staying in the middle class), and not a problem of receiving health care. That, of course, is a "universal" Big Lie of the left--that we do not have a from of "universal health care"--and not a particular intellectual deficiency of Michael Moore.


Where Michael Moore shows himself incapable of understanding an issue is the way he comes at his goal by ATTACKING "villains". How can that be dumb? Is not that the standard tactic of the left? Yep, but Michael Moore no longer does it effectively.


He attacks HMOs because they allegedly put money ahead of "care", and Michael Moore---in classic Michael Moore fashion--tries to tar HMOs by noting that they started with the devil himself (otherwise known as Richard Nixon).


Problem for Miichael Moore (and it was an OBVIOUS problem in the material I heard): HMOs were supposed to provide MANAGED CARE, in a "central planning" manner, as an alternative to the "inefficient" health insurance "system". This was supposed to provide PREVENTIVE care, and lower costs. Does that remind you of antything? It should. It represents the very same arguments in favor of "universal health care" provided by the goverrnment. In fact, HMOs represented basically a LEFTIST approach to health care. Now Moore may be right that this was an attempt to head off "socialized medicine" by providing something of the same thing through private companies, but Moore's attacks on HMOs still represent attacks on UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.


What is "universal health care"? Right. It is MANAGED CARE, where the bloated bureaucracy of the Federal Government does the "managing". "Universal health care" IS an HMO. The HMO is the Federal Government. Every criticism Moore makes of HMOs applies in spades to the massive HMO that is Federal Government provided health care.. Decisions made by bureaucrats based on cost rather than on care? What else do you think is happening NOW with Medicare and Medicaid? How stupid do you have to be to believe that bureaucrats of the Federal Government will be BETTER than bureaucrats of HMOs in terms of desregarding cost in faovr of care? I can answer that!!! You have to be as dumb as that sicko, Michael Moore. Moore even has the nerve to say that the goal of HMOs was to MANAGE COSTS rather than care. What does Moore think President Obama is saying about government health care? Right. It is the way to MANAGE COSTS. In fact, that has been the emphasis of Obama in those "deals" with hospitals and other parts of the health care industry.


EVERY argument against HMOs is an argument against "uhiversal health care" run by government bureaucrats. No, I did NOT forget about "profit" (THE dirty word for Micharel Moore AND for President Obama, not to mention leftists in general). Sure, HMOs have to make a profit to continue to exist. The government can PRINT MONEY. But does that mean that "profit" provides more "incentive" for sub-standard care? Dont be silly!!!! In a government bureaucracy, so much money is siponed off for the BUREACRATS, and the people otherwise feeding off of the government tit--getting that government money to stick to their sticky fingers--that it makes HMO "profit" look positively benign. How does the government make up for the massive waste, corrlution and inefficiency inevitable in a bloated, central planning system? Easy. CONTROL COSTS. DIMINISH CARE. The very things that Moore says happens with HMOs, and which would happen--in spades--with the ultimate HMO known as the Federal Government. But there is no check on the Federal Government. They can print money, and then lower the boom on care. It is hard to sue. You would not know it from Michael Mooore, but HMOs can be sued. If health care providers are merely complying with Federal regulatons, they can't really be sued.


Then there is the corruptionn. Moore rightly notes that money and power CORRUPT. What he fails to realize, because he is Michael Moore, is that this is an argument AGAINST universal health care. The more powerful the Federal Government becomes, the MORE corruptiong there is, and the more DAMAGE that corruption does. The idea that politicians will suddenly be "honest" simply because the government runs everything is absurd. Where the Federal Government becomes the SOURCE of almost all weath, which is where we are headed, the CORRUPUTION inevitably becomes WORSE> Too much power. Too much money. Too little accoutability (not necessarily because of lack of effort, but because the government has become TOO BIG for individuals t be held to account).


Nope. From what I saw, Michael Moore was making one of the most effective arguments AGAINST the huge HMO know as the FEderal Government that I have ver seen. And he did not even recognize it.


Okay. Way too much time on Michael Moore. I think everyone recognizes him as a sicko, outside of the loony left. The reason I spent so much time on him is not Michael Moore, but because his lies and deceptions revel more about the supposedly "non-loony" left than they would have you believe. They are really no better than Michael Moore. It is just that the bitterness and hatred is a little better disguised (in President Obama, for example), and their hatred for ordinary American values not quite so obvious.


P.S. You want to know how Michael Moore LIES? Okay, I will tell you one lie. In that 10 minutes, Moore used a CANCER patient as an example (who was CURED in the U.S., but had to pay MONEY--horrors!!!!). In that same 10 minues Moore said that U.S. health care was 37th in the world (an outright, despicable LIE, and Moore knows it). Well, this blog has previously cited the most extensive study of cancer treatment ever done--a SEDISH study that made major headlines in Great Britain. That study found that the U.S. was one of the BEST in the world at getting new cancer drugs to patients (ALL patients). Great Britain (with "universal health care") was one of the WORST. The British press directly laid the blame on the National Health Service in Britain. It is not ME who is calling MIchael Moore a LIAR. It is the authors of this DEFINNITVE Swedish study, covering many countire, and it is the British press. Again, you can see the archives of this blog for the entry on the Swedish study. Michael Moore, of course, made NO "study". He simply looked for individual examples of people not satisified with their health care. If you don't understand the logical fallacy in that, and the LIE, then you are as dumb as Michael Moore--except, I think, that Michael Moore DOES understand the lie here. He just does not care. He hates this country, and capitalism, too much to care about whehter his own arguments make any sense. Michael Moore does not CARE that that Swedish study, and the British Press, accused the British National Health Service of KILLINg thousands of people each year.