[Kitsa]

I dunno. Michael Moore strikes me as someone who, as I said before, does have a lot of good points...but I think he's also capable of pulling out all of the half-truths and propaganda stops he can in order to make those points. Things got awfully twisty in Sicko.

True, we don't have universal healthcare and we need to either have some version of it or make reasonable healthcare more available in some other way. But I don't believe for a minute that countries that do have universal healthcare are skipping through some la-la-la medical fairyland where everything is just fantastic.

The reform I'd really like to see is for all of the states to follow Massachusetts' example and make it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against someone with childhood cancer. I was born with my cancer and, as far as insurance companies were concerned, I had a lifelong "pre-existing condition" and had to either jump through their hoops (at one point going a YEAR WITHOUT TREATMENT) or not have insurance at all. Long story shorter, insurance companies have fucked with my entire life, up to and including having to leave medical school to work fulltime and keep insurance.

So it's not like I don't have a big problem with the insurance companies.