Andrew Sullivan doesn't like Michael Moore and on multiple occasions has accused Moore of lying, though like everyone else who has accused Moore of lying, I have yet to see one provable example of a Moore Lie. Anyway, Sullivan does have some interesting points on the health care debate. Here's a sample:
The Daily Dish: "...Moreover, a wholesale shifting of healthcare from the private to the public sector simply means replacing rationing by wealth with rationing by number, and a drastic decrease in individual freedom on both sides of the medical equation. You'd replace insurance company bureaucrats who deny care with government bureaucrats who deny care. Removing the financial incentive from doctors simply means they will provide sloppier treatment. They're not saints. They're human beings. And slashing the profit motive from the drug companies will simply mean fewer new drugs for fewer illnesses. This is the trade-off the left will deny till they're blue in the face. But it's a real trade-off.
The European health systems have, of course, been free-riding on private U.S. drug research for decades. Name a great new drug developed in Europe these past ten years. Their own pharmaceutical industries have been decimated by the socialism Moore loves (and many of Europe's drug companies have relocated to the US as a result). But I fear the left is winning this battle; and the massive advantages of private healthcare are only appreciated when you lose them. "
P.S. If you're planning on bombarding me with Moore Lies, feel free to do so, but notice I said provable, not inferred.
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