Stossel, Sick in America, Part 4
August 22nd, 2008 | by Brian Schwartz |Continued from Part 3.
Topics:
- Is “greed” the problem? Should medicine be about profit? Michael Moore: “Get the profit out. Get the private health insurance company out of there.”
- Regina Herzlinger: Henry Ford cut the price of cars by half. There are Henry Fords of health care. Less incentive to innovate without profit.
- Michael Moore laughs and giggles instead of making any good points.
- Stossel: “The private sector does everything better because they compete.”
Moore: “The private sector does everything better? You are like so 13th Century. I love this!” Michael Moore thinks they existed then? Please. - Drug companies save lives. Companies drive innovation in medicine.
- Tenor José Carrares got cancer treatment in the U.S. [ref], not his home country (Spain). So did King Hussein of Jordan, and others.
- David Gratzer: Miracle of modern medicine, from profit.
