CATAGORIES: ALL THINGS POLITICAL, GENERAL NONSENSE — Yarbz @ 1:24 pm

You don’t have to be an advocate of the current and dilapidated American health care system to call our Michael Moore for being the Big Fat Lying Liar that he is. All his films have been made on selective use and exclusion of facts to paint the picture he wants. Of course his cheerleaders hail him “Fat Dumbass God of All Film” but only because he is making films in which they like the message. If there as a fat retarded dumbass making right leaning films, the scene would play out in the opposite… Anyway:

Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, has written about some of those differences.

For example, the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain – which Moore showed in a glowing portrait in his film – has about 850,000 people waiting for admission to its hospitals, Tanner wrote.

“Every year, shortages force the NHS to cancel as many as 50,000 operations,” Tanner said. “Roughly 40 percent of cancer patients never get to see an oncology specialist.”

Though Moore used life expectancy as a main measure of U.S. care compared to Canada, France, Britain and Cuba, Tanner explained that wasn’t a measurement experts would choose.

“Most experts agree that life expectancies are a poor measure of health care,” Tanner said, because so many outside factors affect them – including violent crime, poverty, obesity, tobacco and drug use.

“When you compare the outcome for specific diseases such as cancer or heart disease, the United States clearly outperforms the rest of the world,” Tanner said.

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