I like this fireworks picture even though its blurry

I haven't been inspired to blog much lately, especially when much of my time feels like its just working, eating and sleeping (and the past few days, sweating). However, I did see Sicko a few weeks ago and it definitely got to me. The fact that our health care system is based almost completely around how to get the biggest profits for corporations has always bothered me, but seeing this movie enraged me even more. True, its completely biased, and you have to take a lot of it with a grain of salt, but Fresh Air's interview with Jonathan Oberlander, a professor in the health care field, points out how spot it really is at parts.

What really comes out of the movie is that people in the US have a totally different outlook on government and society than pretty much every other country in the world. I think Michael Moore's best point is that if our house catches on fire, the fire department isn't going to check and see if you have insurance before agreeing to put out the fire, but if you get burned in that fire, there's a decent chance you might not get treated if you don't have insurance. Or you might have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for that treatment. Oh yeah, and the pharmaceutical companies run our government.

Posted by dahl at July 11, 2007 10:28 AM

It is a nice firework picture. They are sdshard to capture as fireFLIES, which I haven't seen for a long time come to think of it.
I think US citizens feel differently about health care and many other things because the old bugaboo "Socialism" still scares the cowboys with the "don't fence me in" mentality. And if this country was ever in the hands of the cowboys it is right now. (No offense to real cowboys who would probably like universal health care as much as the rests of us).