Michael Moore's "Sicko"

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

he's simply assuming that's what Moore is recommending.

As blueerica pointed out, the assumption I am making is that mousepod correctly stated the position of the movie.

Whether or not that would stifle innovation, it's blatently immoral to make health decisions for individual people based on profit motive.

I disagree, and that is why no justification I could offer for my views will be seen by you as reasonable. We are simply beginning from completely different axiomatic points of view.

However, even if you remove "the profit motive" (oh that evil thing) from the equation you are still not removing "mak[ing] health decisions for individual people based on" financial considerations. Removing the profit motive is simply price caps and rationing. Instead of an HMO telling you that they "won't pay for some very expensive procedure but you an go do it yourself" you'll have the government telling you that they "won't pay for some very expensive procedure and feel free to go to Thailand if you want it anyway."

Now, there are many things I think could be done to improve our "health system" in this country. But they don't remove the profit motive. But I was just responding to the range of things I've seen in Moore's discussions and particularly to mousepod's summary of the movie's.