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Originally Posted by Rochard
MM wold be a manager at Wendy's if he wasn't making movies - because that's about all that he's qualified for.
MM tells us that health care in other countries is "free". Great, let's do that in the US. Let's double my taxes - which would cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars a year personally - so I can go see the same doctor the homeless person down the street gets to see. That's a brilliant idea.
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Cummon, I'm not going to get into the swamp with you Richard, but get some balance.
There is no point in attacking the messenger - Mr Moore is film maker who has a degree of credibility and has awards for his work. It's not a matter of whether you agree with him or not. He tends to hit on subject material designed to make people wake up and think - that is more than valid. Moore has achieved more in his lifetime than most of us, and I'd bet whether that is in the movie field or in general media, he'd be doing the same thing regardless - and not hold any position as an employee of that prestige international organization known as McDonalds.
Mr Moore never said healthcare was "free" - you claimed he did. It is common sense that any healthcare system costs money and this is raised by governments thru taxes within all universal healthcare systems. Nobody thinks otherwise. The end result of that is, for individuals, this is "free" and they do not have to concern themselves over the cost of this - it's already included in their taxation system.
No country providing universal health care has double the taxes of those in the US as you suggested. Give or take a few percent either way, all western nations are on a fairly level playing field re taxes. The diffences are mainly in the way these taxes are distributed and what level of services are "given back" to the public directly.