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[lapsedmodernist]

This reminded me of neonazi discussions of race/ethnicity in the Middle Earth as reality-models

from that anti-Michael Moore website:


The season finale of "House" was on tonight. Here’s a recap from TV.com.

A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft… to see House about the wife’s heart condition. But when she gets worse House wonders if someone on his staff messed up. Meanwhile Foreman prepares to leave and his departure threatens to shake up the entire team.
A Cuban couple specifically sneaks into America for medical care? But, they live in the socialist paradise of Cuba, where Michael Moore assures us that El Presidenté has everyone’s medical needs covered. Why anyone would leave the tropical communist Utopia for a trip to the mean, ugly, capitalist, for-profit US is just beyond me.

hahahahahahaha.

Also, Hilary and (more recently) Obama, fuck your wankery about "universal healthcare." What you mean is MANDATORY FOR-PROFIT HEALTHCARE meant to keep screwing people. Fuck you.

Comments

[dcart.livejournal.com]

I actually watched that episode. By U.S. standards, especially pop culture standards, they were remarkably even in how they talked about Cuba. House gave great praise for Cuba's ability to train a lot of thoroughly competent doctors, but acknowledged that they don't have access to a lot of the incredibly expensive equipment that we have here. House dismissed a bunch of possible causes of the wife's ailment on the basis that Cuban doctors would have caught the stuff in question.

[cascadianista.livejournal.com]

I liked slit's review of Sicko, which ends with "Because, in a for-profit system, duh. Once your health problems start costing more than they bring in, you're cheaper dead than alive."

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

I have insurance and I just went broke over medical expenses.

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

Wait. This guy is using the script from an American TV show as evidence against claims that Cuban health care is better than American health care? Really?

That's a bit like saying that this poster refutes claims that German troops aren't exceptionally barbaric: