Yesterday I was dumbfounded as I was reading claims America has the best healthcare in the world. This hasn't been true for years and there are many studies to show it. I provided a link from Forbes which is presumably close to Biblical authority with that crew but he dismissed it as having been written their 'token left-wing nutjob.'
So let's just go with the top five or ten in search:
Forbes: U.S. Healthcare Ranked Dead Last Compared To 10 Other Countries
Compiled from data from the World Health Organization and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
OECD: List of OECD countries by health care outcome
Extensive survey of global health. The only area in which the US came out on top was in managing breast cancer. Well, at least there's that.
WHO: World Health Organization ranking of health systems in 2000
To most, the WHO is regarded as knowing more of global health than any other outfit on the planet because it's their charge to do so. To the GOP, it's a liberal conspiracy.
It's pointless to continue this as I can make the same point all day long ... and no-one in the GOP will accept a word of it because it's all a left-wing conspiracy.
I was stunned at the ability to deny reality. I swear if you gave these people acid, they would explode like basement fission bombs when they finally had to face their real selves.
Michael Moore has never made a movie that would fail to make anyone with feelings cry so you are cautioned on watching "Sicko" but that and "Fahrenheit 9/11" are two of the most important pieces of investigative journalism ever done in this country. Republicans dismiss Moore's work as left-wing hogwash but the problem with that is Moore gives no speeches. He really doesn't say much of anything as it's what he shows you that tells the story and that's what will break your heart.
I absolutely believe there are very few in this country who love it as much as Michael Moore or who have worked harder to find what's wrong. It's not his purpose to embarrass anyone but rather to get these things fixed and that's where everything has stopped for decades: the GOP says no.
One of the most blistering examples is where the failure took place in the FBI reporting of the proto-terrorists taking flight training in the US. My understanding and that of many had been the reports disappeared somewhere in the FBI bureaucracy. In a way that's true as the failure was at the top of it ... when it reported to Attorney General John Ashcroft and he did nothing about it. (Documented in Senate testimony and further in "Fahrenheit 9/11.")
My purpose isn't to embarrass John Ashcroft as that fool embarrasses himself every time he sings but rather to amplify the point from Michael Moore that these systems work just fine so long as Washington supports them.
If the GOP had the courage of Michael Moore to find problems and try to get them fixed, one obvious consequence is there would be no TSA as the FBI worked properly already; it was Washington that didn't.
So let's just go with the top five or ten in search:
Forbes: U.S. Healthcare Ranked Dead Last Compared To 10 Other Countries
Compiled from data from the World Health Organization and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
OECD: List of OECD countries by health care outcome
Extensive survey of global health. The only area in which the US came out on top was in managing breast cancer. Well, at least there's that.
WHO: World Health Organization ranking of health systems in 2000
To most, the WHO is regarded as knowing more of global health than any other outfit on the planet because it's their charge to do so. To the GOP, it's a liberal conspiracy.
It's pointless to continue this as I can make the same point all day long ... and no-one in the GOP will accept a word of it because it's all a left-wing conspiracy.
I was stunned at the ability to deny reality. I swear if you gave these people acid, they would explode like basement fission bombs when they finally had to face their real selves.
Michael Moore has never made a movie that would fail to make anyone with feelings cry so you are cautioned on watching "Sicko" but that and "Fahrenheit 9/11" are two of the most important pieces of investigative journalism ever done in this country. Republicans dismiss Moore's work as left-wing hogwash but the problem with that is Moore gives no speeches. He really doesn't say much of anything as it's what he shows you that tells the story and that's what will break your heart.
I absolutely believe there are very few in this country who love it as much as Michael Moore or who have worked harder to find what's wrong. It's not his purpose to embarrass anyone but rather to get these things fixed and that's where everything has stopped for decades: the GOP says no.
One of the most blistering examples is where the failure took place in the FBI reporting of the proto-terrorists taking flight training in the US. My understanding and that of many had been the reports disappeared somewhere in the FBI bureaucracy. In a way that's true as the failure was at the top of it ... when it reported to Attorney General John Ashcroft and he did nothing about it. (Documented in Senate testimony and further in "Fahrenheit 9/11.")
My purpose isn't to embarrass John Ashcroft as that fool embarrasses himself every time he sings but rather to amplify the point from Michael Moore that these systems work just fine so long as Washington supports them.
If the GOP had the courage of Michael Moore to find problems and try to get them fixed, one obvious consequence is there would be no TSA as the FBI worked properly already; it was Washington that didn't.
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