Quote: California Nurses and Michael Moore Make History - Huffington Post
| It was a truly historic day in Sacramento this afternoon when over ten thousand nurses from all over the country rallied with filmmaker Michael Moore in front of the Capitol building. The California Nurses Association, along with the State Senator Sheila Kuehl, packed into a hearing room to listen to Michael Moore and three people featured in his new movie, Sicko, testify about the appalling state of America's broken for profit health care system. Thousands of nurses and health care professionals, along with people from other unions, (such as myself from the California Faculty Association), gathered outside and watched Moore's testimony on five giant TVs inside huge tents. We rallied in the hot sun, waving little fans and placards the nurses handed out. Then we all marched down to the historic art deco Crest Theater downtown for a special pre-release viewing of Sicko. |
Moore was also David Letterman last week where he spoke about his Fahrenheit 9/11 experience and Sicko.
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1. I am a HUGE fan of Michael Moore! My entire adult life I have felt shamed that my country did not have national healthcare. When 17,000 (estimating from the reading) Americans die each year from having no health insurance, we should each feel ashamed except for the victims, and they do and should feel outraged and violated.
While I feel the plan should be implemented immediately, if not yesterday, I think everyone should be offered the basic government plan that covers ALL the bases, but also that private hospitals and doctors can compete to give the public choices and the option to pay more for "basics plus" than is present in EVERY single payer plan it seems I ever read about.
We need full free coverage for all our citizens now, which would be a huge upgrade in our morality, and at the same time offer Americans choices so that the huge number of people who are insured also don't suffer a decrease in their healthcare (for addtional premiums in addition to the full amount of taxes they may owe for the national plan). I believe John Edwards offers this type of plan,k and Hillare has already introduced a bill to cover the nine million uninsured American children immediately.
Which comes to the last point. The ONLY candidates who want to make national healthcare a reality and will if you let them, are Democrats. The only people in Congress who seem to have any interest in national health care are Democrats.
Phil at 5:04PM on Jun 18th 2007
2. Hi Phil - Every country that has gone to national healthcare has serious problems. These problems range from long waits for important procedures to terrible conditions suffered by patients along the lines of the worse of Walter Reed. I believe everyone in America today with insurance will be far worse off under national healthcare. (you state that 17,000 die each year from a lack of health care, but it would be an interesting question to ask how many in countries with national health care die each year while on waiting lists for important procedures.) Is it moral to go to a national health care system to benefit the 45 million without health care even if it is at the expense of the 260 million with healthcare?
Greg at 7:18PM on Jun 18th 2007
3. I am a nurse and am appalled at Michael Moore. California nurses back Michael Moore and everyone knows California is a socialist state. I know, I used to live there. I believe the truth should be told, not vicious lies. There isn't enough nurses to work in a socialist health care system and no one is denied health care in the emergency room. The rising costs of health care is due to alcohol, drugs, tobacco and unhealthy lifestyles. Most drug addicts and alcoholics do not have health insurance because they do not work. I think we need free rehab, not healthcare.
So this nurse isn't for Michael Moore and his "sicko" ideas.
SDawson at 9:11AM on Jun 28th 2007