Im dying to see this movie and upto this point I have not been a Michael Moore fan. This is one of the biggest problems with our country if not the biggest. I work in Health Care and these insurance companies are absolutely ruthless when it comes to paying for medical care. My job in large part consists of anticipating denials and preparing appeals to both the insurance company and the New York State Insurance Dept. (NYSID), what’s known as an external appeal. It’s the dumbest job on earth, I am the departments defensive against the denial of health care by companies that are supposed to be providing it. It should be completely unnecessary. Now what’s interesting is that after being denied 3 times by an insurance company (2, very lengthy appeal processes), 95% of these cases are seen as treatment necessary by the NYSID and are over turned. This is great, but now 4-6 month’s have gone by since the orignal prescription for treatment and as we all know, time is not reversible. Children either go with out treatment, are assisted with treatment temporarily by pharmacutical companies, or parents are forced to pay out thousands of dollars for it (naturally while the money they’ve paid into there insurance company is spent on some ones new Yacht or Corvette). It’s disgusting, a real piece of crap system. I work in Pediatric Endocrinology. We deal with diabetic children, growth disorders, pubertal disorders, various syndromes with endological issues, and metabolism.

the most controversial director shows to the world the reality about health, this guy be should win the oscar

Just watched it!Incredible. I can’t figure out why you all aren’t rioting. Change it NOW!

Government run health care would diminish the quality. Why do thousands of people run from their own socialized health care countries to travel to the United Sates for surgeries? Because the quality here is better.

The second we socialize our healthcare system, current doctors won’t be able to earn the sort of living their field once promised and potential students will see this trend and pursue other alternatives.

As for Michael Moore and in the words of Jack Nicholson, “Go sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here!”

The concept of having to have money to have consistent health care (and even with money, still variable in quality and service) is not only the most preposterous, unjust and foolish thing for ANYONE to advocate, but is completely undermining to the idea of human intelligence and morals. Any moron who tries to justify the reasoning behind it and who is NOT one of the super elite rich running the HMO’s is not only brainwashed, but deserving of the half-assed, corner -cutting excuse for care they will get when their unfortunate time at the hospital comes around and they realize that the time to demand rights for treatment is before illness, not during and most certainly not after.

In the words of P J O’Rourke: If you think health care is expensive now, wait till you see what it costs when it’s “free”.

While we’re wishing everything was free:

The concept of having to have money to have wine, dope, cars (and even with money, still variable in quality and service) is not only the most preposterous, unjust and foolish thing for ANYONE to advocate, but is completely undermining to the idea of human intelligence and morals.

Anyone who thinks government health care is good should look at the state of LA, Chicago, DC and NYC public schools. Yes, they’re not all bad, some are excellent – just like some people get substandard health care and others get top shelf.

We SHOULD try to reform how health care is provided but to suggest the only answer is gov’t run health care shows a gross lack of how gov’t run health will actually work, Basically it involves RATIONING of health care.

Who’s to say that the gov’t, in an effort to reduce health care costs, won’t outlaw ANYTHING they decide is risky or unhealthy acts or behavior. Mountain climbing, social drinking, protesting in winter … what ever the bureaucrats decide. And if you think insurance companies and HMO are impersonal, try dealing with a unionized government employee who can’t be fired without 237 appeals. If you sass him or her, you lose your place in line for an organ transplant.

Gov’t run health care will bring MORE intrusions into people’s day to day lives than any nightmare all the critics of the Patriot Act can think of.

Emergency Room as DMV,

While you are correct that ’socialized medicine’ will mean a rationing of available health care, it would still be a VAST improvement for those millions who do not have any health care at all.

And ‘Outlawing mountain climbling’ is a pretty stupid comment. Are these risky activities banned in countries that already have socialized medicine? Also, your ‘demonizing’ of unions is irrelevant. Many of the people who work for HMO’s are unionized in the first place. It would be same shit, different day, but at least the money is covered.

Likewise, comparing health care to education is misleading. Sure the schools in the inner cities are crap, but if schools were run like the health care system, most of the students wouldn’t have the money to go to school in the first place.

I mean, when the question comes down to, ‘Slow care or no care?’ the answer is pretty damn obvious.

The Bush Administration is the crookedest in US History. The Hmo’s and Insurance Companies, and their lobbyists, write the health care laws. Relying on the govornment to do ANYTHING, that doesn’t put money in their own pockets, is beyond belief!

Wow, an exclusive! How on earth did you manage to get Moore to open up? It not like he’s been all over the media lately or anything like that saying pretty much the exact same things.

Call me when you get an exclusive with Prince, Keith Richards or Robert Pollard.

um, the american govt, period, is corrupt shit.
michael moore only shows up to sell tickets to his movie. fuck em all

As the daughter of someone who died while appealing a denial of coverage for a legitimate, must-have surgery after paying her insurance premiums on time for literally decades, I applaud Michael Moore, a true hero of the common man. Give ‘em hell, Mike!

Listen people, something must be done here! There are millions of people in OUR country, the greatest country in the world, who can’t even afford health care. Wheather it’s due to a poor job market, or a trend of less and less employers offering decent or any health benefits at all. This is a MAJOR problem people. All you need to do is look at the numbers they do not lie. I am a veteran of the USAF and I will tell you that I recieved the best health care I have ever had while I was active duty, but as soon as I was finished with my career in the military that all changed dramatically. I was spit out! Left to fend and fight for “healthcare” like millions of other Americans. I see so often people going to hospital emergency rooms for treatment for illness or injury that could have been treated at a much lower level early on by a family M.D. Common colds that turn into more serious illness more often than not without simple antibiotic treatment. Unfortunately, millions of us do not have family doctors because we cannot afford it so we end up in the ER and leave owing thousands of dollars in hospital bills!!! Bills that most of us will never be able to pay and wind up endebted to these hospitals for the rest of our lives! Look at the billions of dollars alloted to pharmacutical companies every year for “research” by the government a fraction of which is actually spent on “research”. Try like single digit percentages! Where does the rest of it go?? Then we get raped with continually rising drug cost. This is why you see so many Americans going outside our own country for they’re medicine and now even cheaper medical procedures. Something MUST be done!!!!! I could go on all day about the atrocities of our healthcare and I tell you as Americans we must get involved in the electoral process much more agressively or these atrocities will continue and most likely worsen!!! LOOK AT THE TREND.

I agree immensely with your views on universal health care. I was hit by a car 3 yrs ago, my medical bills are so high I’ll be lucky if I get any kind of compensation after bills are paid. I had 2 back surgeries because of this accident and am not allowed to return to my employement because of limitations. I had went to college, raised a child and worked to achieve what has now been taken from me. yet, I have been informed that in all actuality the person who hit me has more rights than I do. The insurance companies get more reimbursement than I will even though I paid premiums every week. They get theirs first. How do you fight something this big? Respectively, Sherry