Ahead of it's June 29th release, all indicators are pointing towards Michael Moore's new documentary SICKO being a success at the box office. Last weekend, all across the country were sold out.
This comes as Michael Moore released the final SICKO trailer:
Because SICKO will be perceived as less partisan than Fahrenheit 9/11, it is easier to market. In fact, the movie trailer is being projected with sound and subtitles on the near the headquarters of leading HMOs, insurance companies andhospitals in most major cities.
In a portion of the movie SICKO, set to debut in theaters on , producer and narrator Michael Moore Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for not bouncing back after her health care proposal got knocked down in 1994:
Moore's brief political history of American healthcare policy atfirst seems to lavish praise on Clinton, if with a satirical, andgendered, edge. (She's introduced as "Sassy...smart...sexy.")
But his conclusion is that she sold out. After her defeat in thefirst Clinton term, he says, she fell silent on the issue. And "for hersilence, Hillary was rewarded. And she has been the second-largestrecipient in the Senate of healthcare industry contributions."
According to the site , the insurance industry gave Hillary Clinton $513,380 during the 2006 election cycle -- nearly more than what was given to Barack Obama, who is among those challenging Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Sicko is slated for release on June 29th. But will theaters show it? If you want this movie to be shown, then the theater nearest you.
After spending seven intense weeks as a consultant/field organizer who mobilized voters to pressure the Washington State Legislature to put basic health care onto the 2008 budget, it is about time someone pushed this issue to the forefront.
Well it looks like the bastards on the Hill will continue to insert the goscrew yourselves suppositories up our asses once again. the Americans ability to buy cheaper prescription drugsfrom outside the U.S.
WASHINGTON - In a triumph for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate onMonday killed a drive to allow consumers to buy prescription drugs from abroadat a significant savings over domestic prices.
On a 49-40 vote, the Senate required the Food and Drug Administration tocertify the safety and effectiveness of imported drugs before they can beimported, a requirement that officials have said they cannot meet.
"Well, once again the big drug companies have proved that they arethe most powerful and best financed lobby in Washington," said Sen.David Vitter, R-La.
The deep pockets of lobbyists, and the greed that runs rampant in our government,results in one thing ... the royal screwing of the American people.
The with the pharmaceutical companies,and saves a lot of money, however the right to follow suit.
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Once upon a time on an enchanted Hill there was The pharmaceutical industry,the congressmen and the lobbyists, but this isn't a fairy tale. This is thestory of how the Medicare Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003(better known as ) was passed.
The bill made it to the house in the morning, but wasn't voted on until 3:00AM so it wouldn't attract any media coverage. It was supposed to have been a 15minute vote, but voting was left open for almost 3 hours until it received thevotes it needed.
60 Minutes did a story on this .
(CBS) If you have ever wondered why the cost of prescriptiondrugs in the United States are the highest in the world or why it's illegal toimport cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico, you need look no further than thepharmaceutical lobby and its influence in Washington, D.C.
Referring to the frenzy to pass the bill, Representitive Walter Jones (R NC)said "I've been in politics for 22 years, and it was the ugliest night Ihave ever seen in 22 years."
15 of the staffers and politicians that worked on this bill to get it passed,were eventually employed by pharmaceutical companies making as much as $2million salaries.
digs deeper into what they call . There is a lot of information on their web site.
After dodging roadside bombs, IED's and snipers, our troops step into an increaseof mental health problems, suicides and divorce mainly due to the newly imposedtour extensions says pentagon study.
who have served multiple deployments in Iraq aresuffering more mental health problems, suicides and divorces, according to aPentagon study released Friday that studied troops who served overseas lastyear.
Army soldiers show a higher rate of mental health and family problems thanMarines, but that is due to their longer tours of duty, according to the ArmySurgeon General's Mental Health Advisory Team, which has conducted threeperiodic reviews of troop morale, concerns and mental health issues since thewar in Iraq began in 2003.
Our military has been stretched sothin, that the results have become just as (if not more) stressful to thesoldiers than serving in combat.
Asked about the effect of deployment on their marriages, more soldiersreported unhappy marriages (30 percent) than in previous surveys. Similarly, 20percent of soldiers surveyed last year reported they were getting divorced, upfrom 15 percent among soldiers in Iraq in 2005.
The suicide rate for soldiers deployed to Iraq was 30 percent higher, 16 per100,000 people, than in the Army in general, which had a rate of 11 per 100,000people.
As for overall morale, about 20 percent of soldiers reported high or veryhigh morale and about 45 percent reported low or very low morale. Thatrepresented a slight decline and the study suggested that the length and pace ofdeployments was a factor. The study described overall morale for both soldiersand Marines as low.
So next time you hear one of the pro-warconservatives talk about how the soldiers are behind the war, tell them to turn and
When I saw this "Senate Democrats have begun debating a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration more power to ensure that " posted on this morning's Blue Radar, I thought the 60 Minutes video we posted a while back was relevant, and worthy of another run.
15 staff members and politicians were hired by pharmaceutical companies after this bill was passed.
Everyone when the Walter Reed scandal broke. Then Everyone saidthey will get to the bottom of the issue. Well it seems that of the soldiers in 2004 . The administration justbullshitted us again and simply neglected to prepare for the woundedsoldiers.
April 25, 2007 | WASHINGTON -- When the Walter Reed scandal exploded in themedia in February, bringing wide attention to inadequate care for veterans atthe Army's flagship hospital, Defense Department officials expressed shock andclaimed ignorance. Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., the assistant defense secretarywho oversees military medicine, declared at a press conference on Feb. 21:"This news caught me -- as it did many other people -- completely bysurprise."
But Salon has learned that the Defense Department had been conducting monthlyfocus group discussions with soldiers treated at Walter Reed since before thewars in and had evenbegun, and that it continued to do so as wounded veterans of those conflictsarrived at the facility. The interviews with outpatients were set up to monitorArmy healthcare and provide military officials with direct information about it.
"They were trying to find out the good and the bad and theugly," said a former Defense Department official familiar with the DoDfocus groups. "That is the good-news story. The bad-news story is they didnot do anything about it."
Until last week, the leaders of the Force Health Protection and Readinessoffice, which ran the interviews, reported to Winkenwerder. During his Feb. 21press conference, Winkenwerder suggested that money was not the source of theproblems at Walter Reed. "Let me just say, this is not a resourceissue," he told reporters. The next day, the White House announced thatWinkenwerder would be leaving his post. (His replacement, Dr. S. WardCasscells, a vice president of biotechnology at the University of Texas HealthScience Center, took over last week.)
Read the complete story at : "The Pentagon's Chronic Neglect of Iraq Vets"
So, if you don't agree with the war, you don't support the troops, but if yousupport the war you DO support the troops, just not the injured ones becausethey don't count? This would be a good question to ask the decider, because hecan straighten anything out!
Once upon a time on an enchanted Hill there was The pharmaceutical industry,the congressmen and the lobbyists, but this isn't a fairy tale. This is thestory of how the Medicare Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003(better known as ) was passed.
The bill made it to the house in the morning, but wasn't voted on until 3:00AM so it wouldn't attract any media coverage. It was supposed to have been a 15minute vote, but voting was left open for almost 3 hours until it received thevotes it needed.
60 Minutes did a story on this .
(CBS) If you have ever wondered why the cost of prescriptiondrugs in the United States are the highest in the world or why it's illegal toimport cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico, you need look no further than thepharmaceutical lobby and its influence in Washington, D.C.
Referring to the frenzy to pass the bill, Representitive Walter Jones (R NC)said "I've been in politics for 22 years, and it was the ugliest night Ihave ever seen in 22 years."
15 of the staffers and politicians that worked on this bill to get it passed,were eventually employed by pharmaceutical companies making as much as $2million salaries.
digs deeper into what they call . There is a lot of information on their web site.
The state of Texas has the of anywhere else in the country. Go figure:
About 47 percent of parents in families earning less than $40,000 a year are offered health insurance through their employers — a 9 percent drop during the past decade.
The figure underscores concern that low-income parents are experiencing a dramatic erosion in employee benefits, said the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the research.
The foundation says the research also shows the importance of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which has been in effect for a decade. One of the biggest debates in Congress this year will be over how much funding to set aside for the program, which now covers about 6 million children.
Among the 21 countries in the industrialized world, the United States is ranked as the second worst country for children, according to a . The lowest-rated country was Great Britain. NPR reported on the details of the findings:
A new report from the U.N. Children's Fund says the United Statesand Britain are the worst countries in the industrialized world inwhich to be a child. UNICEF says an examination of 40 factors, such aspoverty, deprivation, happiness, relationships, and risky or badbehavior puts the United States and Britain at the bottom of a list of21 economically developed nations.
TheUNICEF report sought to assess children's well-being in developedcountries by measuring a number of factors, including health,education, poverty, family relationships, and bad or risky behavior.Children were also asked to say whether they were happy.
Inthe overall table of children's well-being, the Netherlands comes outon top, followed closely by the Scandinavian countries, which also havehighly developed welfare systems. At the bottom are the United Statesat No. 20, and Britain at No. 21.
Part of the reason why we lag so far behind other industrialized countries in children's services is because we allow snappy Reaganomic one-liners to out-weigh importance of objective thoughtfulness. Anytime we ask for single-payer health care, that automatically is socialist. Anytime we call for more investments in science education, that gets equated with atheism. Anytime we demand a renewed effort by lawmakers to fight poverty, we are accused of trying to destroy capitalism. Better yet, anytime we are even remotely critical of our own country on anything, we get told to move to Canada.
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