Michael Moore overlooked this in Sicko from Planck's Constant

I'm sure you have read about the high school student who died as the result of a treatment-resistant staph infection which prompted Virginia officials to shut down 21 schools to keep the illness from spreading.

But in Britain, where everyone can rely on the great National Health System touted as superior to ours, more than a thousand patients at just three hospitals were infected with the Clostridium difficile bacterium between 2004 and 2006:

Sweetness and Light,
11 Oct 2007,
345 Die In UK Hospitals - From Poor Sanitation
Three hospitals in Kent were so decrepit, overcrowded, understaffed and badly managed that when a lethal bacterial infection took hold it spread unchecked, causing death and disease on an unprecedented scale.
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An investigation by the Healthcare Commission, published in June 2006, blamed "serious failings” by senior managers who gave priority to government targets and control of their finances and ignored warnings from infection control specialists…

But this is something that a good documentarian should have included in his film SICKO, no? At least to have the appearance of fair and balanced. But I suppose being fair and balanced would have felt to Moore as if he were too much like FOX News, eh?

Michael Moron also missed the demonstration by nearly naked nurses complaining about the National Health Services; how did that happen?

Socialized Medicine has only one Pro: everyone suffers, not just the poor. And to a left-winger that is very satisfying. It is impossible to describe to a normal person what a Liberal feels when he sees rich people in pain. Because it is rationed, the rich as well as the poor get cut off from medical services when the state has reached its financial quota for operations and medicine. And that is the real reason Liberals love the medical system in Canada: if there are no more hip replacements left for the year you are forbidden by law to pay for them in the US or anywhere else. The rich as well as the poor suffer equally.

Yes, yes, I am aware that Canadian mothers have to come to the United States for neonatal intensive care because in the whole of Canada they do not have this service. But if the Health Service in Canada ran out of money then even that option would end. As it is, about one out of every seven Canadian physicians sends someone to the United States every year for treatment. If it were not for the American Health Care System, Canada's would implode. Something that Michael Moore forgot to mention.

The truth is that Socialized medicine is a horror. People who suffer under it do so as abused wives who deny they are abused.

Gates of vienna,
National Health or Individual Well-Being?
People with toothache are resorting to pulling their own teeth because they cannot find a NHS dentist, a study out today says.

Almost a fifth of those questioned in the biggest patient survey of its kind said that they had missed out on dental work because of the cost.

The research, involving more than 5,000 patients in England, also found that as many as six per cent had treated themselves because they could not find a dentist.

Some said they took out their own teeth or fixed broken crowns with glue. One person in Lancashire had carried out 14 separate extractions with pliers.

How did Michael Moore, that great maker of documentaries, miss that?

But, hey, I say let's give Hillary's Universal Health Coverage a try. After all, Mexico is not that far away if we need to get alternate health services when ours crashes and burns.

Disclaimer: The nearly naked lady is actually protesting in the Anti-Trident March in London on 24 Feb 2007 and is merely holding a poster that equates the money spent on Trident Missiles would pay for 120,000 nurses. I figured since Michael Moore can lie and fabricate facts in his documentaries, I can take a few liberties myself. In fact, I wouldn't mind taking a few liberties with some British Nurses myself.