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br> Healthcare-NOW /p>

Michael Moore wants the government to run health insurance? Clearly, he's never had experience with government-run programs. Nor has he had much interaction with bureaucracies. Nor has he much grasp on excesses in existing government-run healthcare systems.

He appears ignorant about the state of pharmas today, especially vaccine makers. Through leftist Hillary R. Clinton's incompetence when she was co-president, Vaccines for Children was born. Noble in idea, it drove vaccines manufacturers out of the marketplace because through forced discounted prices. it took the capitalist incentive away from making competitive drugs. Even the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine pointed its finger at HRC for vaccine shortages because of the program.

p>Doesn't this guy have anything better to do than give even more support to politicians, especially those of the leftist and liberal and progressive ilk, that seem to be all-too-willing to give us all a yet another near-lethal injection of some new government program? br> -- C. Kenna Amos br> Princeton, West Virginia /p>

Yes, you may dismiss this letter, because I'm an independent who has never voted Republican (actually I voted for Dole, so that Clinton wouldn't win in a landslide).

But seriously, David Hogberg's piece on Moore's Sicko is just plain propaganda. Ironic, really, since some are inclined to see Moore's work as propaganda, as well. But David's piece does what many folks often do when they talk about the other side: Take the most vapid and distorted interpretation of the opposing camp's viewpoint, and then derail if for being vapid. It's not serious.

You folks on the right would do well to engage in a serious and productive way in the discussion on healthcare. Most American's are not happy with the way things are. The system is broken and they want it fixed. Now, there is certainly a way that healthcare can be made effective for the masses and profitable for corporations. And I would think that you'd like to be part of that discussion. But comparisons of Soviet government healthcare systems are just plain silly -- no matter how vitriolic attacks get. It's just a lot of vitriol, nothing more.

p>Moore is a polemicist, everyone knows that: you don't need to tell us that. But he makes a powerful point: That there are systems that maintain a better balance between enterprise and service, and they are not Soviet-like at all. We Americans deserve better than what we have right now. So what are you folks going to do about it? br> --

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