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    Sicko

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    Makes me feel prouder to be a canadian! Seriously though, it's quite evident that leaving healthcare to the hands of business men is not a great idea! Of course canada has its own limitations put in place by business but they are so limited compared to the states! Just remember next time a government starts promoting the private sector in basic health care. Good documentary but more of like a quest for stories than actual "documentary style". The movie is simply a number of stories that were developped to prove a point. And it does make quite a strong statement throughout.

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    theonlysteve@  27.6.2007 age: 36-49 987 reviews

    While I have not yet seen this picture, I hope like you that this film can put to an end once and for all, any idea of two-tier health care in Canada. It's up to Canadians to fight for improvements in an already better system than US style health care. There is no reason why we can't have better universal health care than either France or England.

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    robbinemail@  29.6.2007 age: 50+ 154 reviews

    How can a two tier health care system be bad? People who have money pay for private and that takes them out of the public system. Everyone moves up the ladder quicker. If you think that people don't jump ahead in lines already you have your head up your #@@. So you think it is better to sit in line in a government system and wait months for treatment? Yes this is a great idea, NOT!!! We will see how you feel about your government system if you or someone you know gets cancer.

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    simm_3@  8.7.2007 age: 36-49

    Hey, if a free enterprise doctor wants to opt out of the public system go ahead, and their patients can go ahead and opt too for that matter. But this same doctor shouldn't expect the public system to subsidize private enterprise, and patients shouldn't be able to jump in and out as they please, which is exactly what is proposed. Its corporate welfare and elitism and I don't support it under any guise. No, I don't think its better to wait months, but it doesn't have to be this way and for the most part it isn't. Canada has a good system and we can make it better if we so choose to demand it from our politicians. It's our politicians that have been influenced by business lobbies to create problems in the system so that Canadians are fooled into thinking that something else might be better. Fortunately Canadians are smarter than this... What about you simm_3? Finally, I have had family with cancer and suspected cancer and both had excellent outcomes within our public system.

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    robbinemail@  9.7.2007 age: 50+ 154 reviews

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