Comments on: Sicko http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/07/02/sicko/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sandip Madan http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/07/02/sicko/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Sandip Madan Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:24:09 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/07/02/sicko/#comment-290 Contrary to a lot of criticism that I came across, this movie was surprisingly free of factual errors and misportrayals. I had been expecting these, and instead find the criticism by the likes of the Med Innovation Blog quoted above to be without basis. Michael Moore on MSNBC's Hardball himself addressed this "colossal Third Party Payer in federal government... make the existing problem that much worse" spiel. He asked if that was the case, should Medicare be scrapped, and the government not pay for healthcare of US troops? Then of course there were the unfounded Dr. Sanjay Gupta criticisms on CNN in his so-called "Fact Check Report" that overlap with some of those above. I wrote about these here: http://sandipmadan.blogspot.com/2007/07/sickos-critique-by-dr-sanjay-gupta-cnn.html My own views on Sicko are here: http://sandipmadan.blogspot.com/2007/07/healthy-response-to-sicko.html Contrary to a lot of criticism that I came across, this movie was surprisingly free of factual errors and misportrayals. I had been expecting these, and instead find the criticism by the likes of the Med Innovation Blog quoted above to be without basis.

Michael Moore on MSNBC’s Hardball himself addressed this “colossal Third Party Payer in federal government… make the existing problem that much worse” spiel. He asked if that was the case, should Medicare be scrapped, and the government not pay for healthcare of US troops?

Then of course there were the unfounded Dr. Sanjay Gupta criticisms on CNN in his so-called “Fact Check Report” that overlap with some of those above. I wrote about these here:

http://sandipmadan.blogspot.com/2007/07/sickos-critique-by-dr-sanjay-gupta-cnn.html

My own views on Sicko are here:

http://sandipmadan.blogspot.com/2007/07/healthy-response-to-sicko.html

]]> By: Health Wonk Review - July 12, 2007 : Colorado Health Insurance Insider http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/07/02/sicko/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Health Wonk Review - July 12, 2007 : Colorado Health Insurance Insider Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:35:22 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/07/02/sicko/#comment-289 [...] Shafrin is the Healthcare Economist with a review of SiCKO: “While Sicko has some important critiques of the American system, I am as of yet not [...] [...] Shafrin is the Healthcare Economist with a review of SiCKO: “While Sicko has some important critiques of the American system, I am as of yet not [...]

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