Michael Moore is having trouble maintaining his own hyperbole. The filmmaker who claimed in “SiCKO” that “nearly 50 million Americans” are without health insurance, has been dropping the number.
I doubt it’s because he read Business & Media Institute's expose on uninsured statistics that proves his number to be absolutely wrong.
Nevertheless, Moore used a lower figure on the July 10 “Larry King Live.”
“And when you’ve got 47 million people in this country with no health insurance, they don’t go to the doctor because they can’t afford it,” Moore said on the CNN show.
Then the number dropped again when Moore appeared on “The Colbert Report” July 19.
In an interview on the Comedy Central show, Stephen Colbert asked Moore if he believed everybody should have health care.
“So 45 million Americans don’t have health care – they don’t have health insurance?” asked Colbert. “That’s right,” replied Moore.
Moore later used the same figure to make a point about wait times.
“That’s why we don’t have maybe as long of a wait that you have in other countries because we’ve removed 45 million people [with no health insurance] from the line,” said Moore.
While Moore trots out his shrinking statistic about the number of uninsured Americans, he’s still wrong. Census data makes it clear that nearly 10 million of the 47 million uninsured are not citizens of the United States.
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Come on Michael, don't go
July 20, 2007 - 16:39 ET by mvfreemanCome on Michael, don't go away mad, just go away.
It's nice to see that some liberals are recognizing Moore's intellectual dishonesty is making them look stupid. Time to get him back on the "reality based" plantation.
If we know 10 million are
July 20, 2007 - 16:44 ET by bigtimerIf we know 10 million are not citizens, the question is are they legal and why are they are still? We must know where they reside.
I know that number of illegals is much higher, must of been where Moore was getting his figures...eh?
LMAO...
ALL Americans should be
July 20, 2007 - 17:06 ET by mattmALL Americans should be without health insurance!!!*
Insurance is for unforseeable risks or rare events, like a sudden death or a major illness, NOT for routine expenses. Imagine paying a "Food Maintenence Organization" or FMO, a monthly premium and then THEY buy your groceries for you. What would happen? The price of food would skyrocket and the quality would plummet.
This is what has become of healthcare since people bought into the idea that "health care" should be free, and should be payed for by "insurance" companies. Putting government in place of the insurance companies will make it even worse.
MSA's are the answer. *The only place for insurance in healthcare is with major medical policies. Everything else is just pre-paid health services, and whenever you have pre-paid anything, the price goes up and quality goes down. It's inevitable.
Michael Mooreon should be indicted for inciting ignorance.
If inurance policies only
July 20, 2007 - 18:26 ET by motherbeltIf inurance policies only cover "major illnesses", everything will become a "major illness." I remember when I was 17, I needed my impacted wisdom teeth removed. My father's medical plan would only cover it if it reuqired overnight hospitalization. Therefore, I "required" overnight hospitalization. It probably would have been cheaper to do it in the office, but insurance wouldn't cover it then. Luckily they do now, and it saves money in the long run.
I don't know what the answer is, but I do think the market will adapt to whatever the 'requirements' are for coverage.
I agree completely. If
July 20, 2007 - 18:32 ET by RESTLESS 1I agree completely. If health insurance didn't pay for routine visits, people would go to the doctor less and competition would be introduced to the market place. Prices for clinic visits would come down as people would go only when they need to and to places they could afford.
Also, insurance for catastrophic and unforseen events and illnesses costs would likely go down, as their payouts would be limited to these circumstances, while more expensive, certainly far more rare than routine visits to clinics, which I see as being abused now.
“So 45 million Americans
July 20, 2007 - 18:24 ET by JPR1“So 45 million Americans don’t have health care – they don’t have health insurance?”
More evidence of liberals having trouble with simple distinctions.
Health care is a service someone may or may not need. Health insurance is a product a wise person will consider essential.
Are they dense or devious?
What about the people (millions I'm sure) who have insurance and go 10 years without using a nickles worth?