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I recently saw SiCKO. This documentary was very eye opening regarding the health care system in the U.S. vs. other countries.
1. France
- People work a 35 hour work week, gets a minium of 5 weeks vacation, and Overtime gets applied as future vacation days.
- How many sick days do you get? The question is how many do you need.
- A woman that worked for General Electric in France gets 5 weeks off a year. How nice that salary jobs in the U.S. you are lucky if you get 3 weeks.
- If you have a baby you can get up to 1 year off paid
- The government will send a mother someone to help her for 4 hours a day, for free
- Day care is free
- Of course doctor visits, all medication, all surgeries are free (paid by taxes)
- If you go to the hospital and need some money to get home, you are given some cash as you walk out the door.
2. London: See France. It is the same.
3. Canada: Not sure about the vacation time but we (in Michigan) already know medical care is covered by the government.There are some real tear jerker's on this film.
- A mother takes her 4 year old daughter to the hospital, she has a very high fever. The hospital will not treat her so she is sent via cab to another hospital where she dies.
- 9/11 workers that suffer from lung problems because of helping out on ground zero get no help for medications and medical treatment. Moore takes them to Cuba. One woman finds that the inhalers she purchases in the U.S. for 150 each (and she needs 4 a month) costs .05 cents in Cuba. Yes 5 CENTS!. The Cuban hospitals care for the people that Moore takes to Cuba. They get MRIs, Medication, and one man gets a new set of teeth. He needed new teeth because after all the stress of 9/11 and working on ground zero he grounded down his teeth over the years due to stress.
After watching this movie it is really clear how shameful it is that people go without health care in this country.
Watching this film was like having someone open the curtains on a window. You will see and learn things that will be very, very eye opening.
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it is too bad that people go without health care but i don't think letting the government handle is the answer either. sounds a bit like communism
chic geeki love crafty thiungs.
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| Sadly it isn’t going to change real soon. Too much money is being made. And too many politicians benefit from the donations medical interests spend on them to keep it that way.
I find it ironic that we as a nation can spend millions-billions of dollars for bombs that maim or kill, but then find it appalling when someone say’s ’Universal Health Care for all citizens.’
Oh and by the way, that isn’t communism, but is socialistic. Which is not all bad. The easy answer for the elected now is to say: "we'll make health care affordable." But how is a minimum wage earner or nonworking person going to pay for it? Jeff (weseye) Wesley
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| you're right, socialism. i'd still like less government involvement in my life.
chic geek i love crafty thiungs.
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| I agree with the less government as well. It was still interesting to see how well other folks lived and I was suprised to see that U.S. was considerd one notch above Cuba regarding medical care. If you watch the video you get the impression that Cuba medical care is better, not only because it is free, but there is a care and non-rushing because it is not a business trying to make a profit from an illness.
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