Dude you forgot the nearly 8% sales tax we in California spend on nearly everything that we buy…. also on top of that the even higher tax on gasoline that also has sales tax on top of it… and don’t forget the property tax!! We are paying >50% taxes in California and we don’t get health care. Instead we send a half to one trillion bucks to rebuild a country we ALSO PAID TO BLOW UP and give them free health care. Don’t forget we also give free health care to all of those who would cross our border illegally (even those who may intend to blow us to hell). Love it!!
All I have to say about that movie is that it was very well done. It is extremely left and those who say he manipulates the facts are absolutely right. Let’s look at everything else we hear about it from the Conservative Right… all totally f-ing manipulated to the point of making Hitler’s propaganda look like a Jehovah’s Witness mailer. You have to take both sides of the story whip them together, see what makes sense and see who is to benefit more from their story being sold. I would have to say I’d support MM on that. All he gets is ticket sales and possible systemic change. Those of you who claim they won’t watch the movie based on how he manipulates facts… I would say you should lay off the TV… that is about as Right and manipulated as it gets. Come up with a better argument for why someone is wrong or at least have some legit examples of the said manipulation. You ultimately have the right to watch what you want and spend money on what you’d like. It’s a free country just don’t hide behind unproven excuses. That just makes you sound like a Rush Limbaugh groupie.
I work in Biotech/Pharma and I believe that they are greatly to blame for this as well. High priced drugs are a bane to the system and HMOs are in bed with them on the pricing and passing on as much as possible to the insured doesn’t put pressure on keeping costs down. I would bet more than the lunch money on the fact that if the Govt. was paying for all the drugs and services that you would see broad reform and pricing pressure on the Pharmas since the govt. doesn’t tend to want to pay extra for anything. The only problem is the politicians have taken two ladies (Pharma and HMOs) to bed with them and both have a lot of sugar to offer. We taxpayers try to get into the bed but the ladies have more sugar to give than we do and to be sadly honest the ladies seem to be better to look at in the morning. Until that changes people will continue to be allowed to die quietly while those of us who have healthcare feel safe and cozy with only our co-pays, deductibles and premiums being vacuumed out of our wallets… on top of 50% tax.
The fact that I live in a country where my life could be in the hand of someone with corporate profit lying in the other hand makes me a little uneasy. The fact that I live in a country where people are allowed to die because they don’t have enough nearly worthless paper in their pocket makes me sick. The fact that there is someone profiting from denying medical coverage to my countrymen and allowing them to die… tells me that if there really is a hell those people are heading down there strapped to the back of ballistic missile.
