Originally posted by Irishacts:
All I know about the American health care is what I've seen in the movie SICKO and that scared the life out of me. I've always believed that America is one of the greatest countries on earth (still do) but the level of greed I saw in that movie truly sickened me to the core.
I live in Ireland which as far as technology goes we are almost backwards over here. Yet we rank 18 places higher in our free health care over America's system. Sorry now but that's just comical and wrong on so many levels. Take the profit out from Medical Care and you get Quality. Your Mail, Fire Department and Police Force do just fine don't they ?
Regards
James
"SICKO" is in no way a realistic portrayal of our current health care. Moore basically cherry picked the most dramatically heinous situations he could find and weaved them together and coming up with his conclusions.
Our postal service is not a very efficient part of our gov't. Private delivery couriers (Fed Ex, UPS) have taken a lot of business from them because they do it better, faster, cheaper.
Fire and Police I would say are outstanding provided the funds are in place to allow them to perform their duties at the numbers they need. The recent Stimulus Package has sent millions of dollars into hundreds of cities to maintain operating budgets for both fire/police services.
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Bill in Dayton
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