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Sicko - anyone seen it?

kimberkid
I was looking at the movie this afternoon and saw "Sicko" listed at a local movie house, and checked to see what it was about ... I knew it was produced our hero, Michael Moore.

quote:Synopsis -
After exploring the predominance of violence in American culture in Bowling for Columbine and taking a critical look at the September 11th attacks in Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions toward the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary that weighs the plight of the uninsured against the record profits of the pharmaceutical industry. Moore interviews a number of people who have been left broke by medical bills even though they were fully insured, and explains how the corporate drive for profits has left numerous people in financial and medical disarray. After hearing that detainees in Guantanamo have access to free health care, Moore assembles a group of World Trade Center rescue workers to travel to Cuba in order to get the medical help they need for ailments they incurred in 2001. Moore's film debuted at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

After reading the synopsis, my first question was ... what does the the Health Care, and the "plight of the uninsured" have to do with "record profits of the pharmaceutical industry" ?

I guess he just thinks the government should just step in and make it all better ...

... Why doesn't M.M. just make a movie about how envisions the USA as a communist state?
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  • Aspen79se
    I agree with MM on some level. The cost of medical care has skyrocketed. Something should be done about it, the question is what is the best answer. Don't even get me started on pharmaceutical companies.
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  • rhythm_guy
    I see no reason to pay money to see his personal opinion of the healthcare industry. Yes, it's a mess, but why pay to watch what he thinks about it. After his previous opinionated "documentary" efforts it looks like the public would catch on to his game. This is just another of his sad attempts to guide public opinion his way. Worthless, IMHO.
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  • AHansen
    Haven't seen it, nor do i plan. I don't have a very high opinon of the director.
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  • tsavo303
    yeah, communism works so much better[:o)]
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    Nope, wouldn't touch anything even remotely related to that puke.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    funny everyone complains about the pharmaceutical companies high prices, the r/d they have to go through and the dea on a daily basis, security, totally neglecting the fact that the pharmacies themselves have 400-1000 percent mark up, after it goes through several distributors, name 1 other retailer that has that mark up, most are lucky to get 100 percent

    get this, if i was to loose a dea form i loose my job, no second chance gone, if i was to loose 10 cases of the actual drug, oxycontin, vicodin etc. it would come of of my check in a payment plan at wholesale price
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  • William81
    Don't care to hear what some moron from Canada has to say about America. If he really wants to see a screwed up system, just look around his own country and why he is at it, Stay there.
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  • goldeneagle76
    I would not pay a dime to see any of his crap.
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  • AHansen
    The canadian health care system is a failed system. We see so many of them here in washington state. The canadians come here for fast reliable health care. As for pharmacies marking up prescriptions; Costco and Sams club as well as Walmart have the lowest prices on some medication and they still make a profit.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    quote:Originally posted by AHansen
    The canadian health care system is a failed system. We see so many of them here in washington state. The canadians come here for fast reliable health care. As for pharmacies marking up prescriptions; Costco and Sams club as well as Walmart have the lowest prices on some medication and they still make a profit.


    wal-mart, walgreens, and several stores as cosco, schnucks etc. also have their own distributors which cuts out a big middle man
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  • Laredo Lefty
    I wont watch anything that slob makes.
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  • TooBig
    I won't support him with my money just like Jane Fonda Pizz on them[:D][}:)]
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  • Aspen79se
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    funny everyone complains about the pharmaceutical companies high prices, the r/d they have to go through and the dea on a daily basis, security, totally neglecting the fact that the pharmacies themselves have 400-1000 percent mark up, after it goes through several distributors, name 1 other retailer that has that mark up, most are lucky to get 100 percent

    get this, if i was to loose a dea form i loose my job, no second chance gone, if i was to loose 10 cases of the actual drug, oxycontin, vicodin etc. it would come of of my check in a payment plan at wholesale price


    Do you know how many medications they produce require a DEA form? Fewer than one percent. Pharmaceutical companies give a way samples like candy, pens, clocks, calculators, lunches, dinners and pay doctors to do surveys. They also advertise their products on national TV, which is dumb because no one watching can buy the product.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    quote:Originally posted by Aspen79se
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    funny everyone complains about the pharmaceutical companies high prices, the r/d they have to go through and the dea on a daily basis, security, totally neglecting the fact that the pharmacies themselves have 400-1000 percent mark up, after it goes through several distributors, name 1 other retailer that has that mark up, most are lucky to get 100 percent

    get this, if i was to loose a dea form i loose my job, no second chance gone, if i was to loose 10 cases of the actual drug, oxycontin, vicodin etc. it would come of of my check in a payment plan at wholesale price


    Do you know how many medications they produce require a DEA form? Fewer than one percent. Pharmaceutical companies give a way samples like candy, pens, clocks, calculators, lunches, dinners and pay doctors to do surveys. They also advertise their products on national TV, which is dumb because no one watching can buy the product.


    agreed, but man that 1 percent sure puts a cramp in the whole situation since it is all in the same order as non controlled, so logistically it doesn't matter it may as well all be controlled
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  • minitruck83
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    funny everyone complains about the pharmaceutical companies high prices, the r/d they have to go through and the dea on a daily basis, security, totally neglecting the fact that the pharmacies themselves have 400-1000 percent mark up, after it goes through several distributors, name 1 other retailer that has that mark up, most are lucky to get 100 percent


    Jewelers!

    (well you did ask.) [}:)]


    Allen
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  • kimberkid
    quote:Originally posted by Aspen79se
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    funny everyone complains about the pharmaceutical companies high prices, the r/d they have to go through and the dea on a daily basis, security, totally neglecting the fact that the pharmacies themselves have 400-1000 percent mark up, after it goes through several distributors, name 1 other retailer that has that mark up, most are lucky to get 100 percent

    get this, if i was to loose a dea form i loose my job, no second chance gone, if i was to loose 10 cases of the actual drug, oxycontin, vicodin etc. it would come of of my check in a payment plan at wholesale price


    Do you know how many medications they produce require a DEA form? Fewer than one percent. Pharmaceutical companies give a way samples like candy, pens, clocks, calculators, lunches, dinners and pay doctors to do surveys. They also advertise their products on national TV, which is dumb because no one watching can buy the product.You are right, they can't buy "it" without a perscription ... but the consumer can ask their doctor to perscribe "it" ... this way the doctor gets pressure from both sides!
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by rhythm_guy
    I see no reason to pay money to see his personal opinion of the healthcare industry. Yes, it's a mess, but why pay to watch what he thinks about it. After his previous opinionated "documentary" efforts it looks like the public would catch on to his game. This is just another of his sad attempts to guide public opinion his way. Worthless, IMHO.


    I have to agree on this. I know the insurance and pharmaceutical companies are wallowing in filthy lucre. I don't need Michael Moore to tell me that. Of course, I'd be skeptical if he told me the sky was blue.
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  • Aspen79se
    Feds don't mess around with narcotics, but outside of hospitals and pharmacies, not too many docs carry them; specialists maybe (you'd need something for a sygmoidoscopy (sp?) ).

    I don't think they should advertise. Does anyone here really believe they know better than an M.D. or D.O about what medication they need? Hell, you wouldn't believe the crap I hear from patients at work. "I was on the internet and..." I really want to stop them and say, "Unless you have M.D. after your name, you need to be seen before you get your RX." Patients will drive you nuts sometimes.
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