hmm i should try using movies from other countries to determine their overall culture that i know nothing about This is
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ShamisOH — 16 years ago(June 14, 2009 05:26 AM)
If you live in a country with a public health service, how can you know how unrealistic this film was? And did you think it was its characters or the film itself that had a "skewed sense of morals"?
I agree that this story was somewhat contrived, and it was quite a bit overacted in places, but it certainly brings attention to a serious problem in our country.
It does not make much sense to pan this film because it emphasizes a problem that your country lacks. It would be like me putting down a film about your television licensing program because the program itself is ridiculous, and then calling you fools for having it. Our health care system has serious flaws, and this film hardly celebrates it. The people who cannot tolerate it are the usually the ones who can do the least about it, and that is one of the points it tries to make.
As to whether we would favor a similar system to yours, that is certainly a controversial and heated issue here and it is becoming more so every day. Ironically, despite being set in Chicago, this film was made entirely in Canada, a country whose health care system is constantly being compared to our own. The Canadians are likely similarly baffled by this film as you are. The film is exaggerated and overacted, but not entirely unrealistic. -
still_brooke1 — 13 years ago(June 22, 2012 12:12 PM)
Why would we be jealous? We have people from other countries come here for surgery I'd rather pay for what I and/or my family uses then for some hypochondriac uses. We were supposed to have Obamacare.that's a freaking joke!!
And if England's health care is so great, then why do most of them have bad teeth?
Free isn't always a good thing IMO.
Taxes are incredibly high over herepaying for stuff we don't need or use a lot of times!! If you don't live in the US, or use our health system, how can you say that it's a bad system just off of one movie
I like the concept of what someone posted about France. Health care is based on what you pay.
On that movie, what's so disgusting is how the hospital acts towards them than how America's health system is. It's a good movie but inaccurate as to how the health care system is here in the US. What I DO NOT like about our h/care system is we will pay for "anchor babies", illegals and people that have never paid into our taxes yet citizens have to pay out the butt for what they have done. -
marlarkey — 13 years ago(March 09, 2013 03:55 AM)
This is the key to the NHS that the service provided is available to everyone free of charge, without discrimination on any grounds (including finance, insurance, etc).
Basically if the service is available then it is available FREE.
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acehit — 12 years ago(April 15, 2013 01:40 AM)
The NHS isn't anything to be proud of, it's actually a complete joke. Me and my wife have had such a poor treatment from this service and so has a huge number of the population. They treat you like a number, one in, one out, there is absolutely no empathy or in-depth welfare with the patient at all! I've had to seek private treatment for a lot of things and pay for it obviously, so it's the services that cost that give you a far better response.
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kinsayder — 12 years ago(October 22, 2013 04:05 PM)
My father would be dead right now if he didn't have UK private medical insurance. He had pneumonia and the best the NHS could offer was a hospital bed in 3 weeks. With his insurance I had him admitted to a private hospital within 24 hours. His consultant there said that he probably wouldn't have survived if we'd waited even a day longer for hospital treatment.
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tilak — 10 years ago(November 21, 2015 09:16 AM)
India is ridden with so much poverty and economy is real bad but even than in India you can get a heart transplant for real cheap,because health services are highly subsidized.
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katesgram2000 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 02:31 PM)
What I am in favor of is a flat income tax-straight percentage and stop allowing loopholes for the wealthy. I have heard people say 10% flat tax-I am not even sure it would have to be that high if they just went straight across the board everyone pays a flat percentage on what they make.
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mazardeus — 9 years ago(February 12, 2017 08:40 AM)
According to Michael Moore's "Sicko" documentary film, the difference in tax paying between the British and the American is really not that controversial.
I am willing to pay higher taxes for more RELEVANT services that support all people regardless of class, race, religion, etc. The vital problem are the components in our tax. We spend way too much on military spending. We can easily cut half of that, and transfer it over to free medical care for all. We do not need 800+ military bases outside of the United States, illegal wars and drone bombing innocent Middle Eastern people. Terrorism and national security are nothing but excuses. The United States Foreign Policy, for decades, is one of the biggest terrorist organizations (directly and indirectly) in the world. We fund terrorist organizations with money and military weapons (indirectly). And our drone bombs, bombing other nations like Panama, Vietnam and Iraq, and let us not forget the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombs (directly).