Tuesday, July 17, 2007

FreeMarketCure.com is not sicko 

Website offers short films about health care in Canada and the US

Filed As:  Health Care

Looking for some healthy videos? FreeMarketCure.com offers short counterweights to that guy who cannot be named. (No, not Lord Voldermort.) In its own homepage words, “FreeMarketCure.com is a new film website dedicated to educating the public about single-payer health care. America's one-stop answer to the dangerous fantasy that the government can and should manage your health care, FreeMarketCure.com features short films that reveal the truth about health care in Canada and in the United States.”

FreeMarketCure.com is supported by the Moving Picture Institute Short Film Program. Listed below are a few of the video offerings from the Cure (no, not the band), and short descriptions lifted straight from its website.

• A Short Course in Brain Surgery “highlights the plight of an Ontario man with a cancerous brain tumor who crossed the border to the U.S. to get the medical care that is rationed in his home country.” (5:36 min.)

• Uninsured in America “examines the conventional wisdom that 45 million Americans cannot get health insurance and consequently do not have access to health care.” (9 min.)

• The Lemon “demonstrates how single-payer health care systems have a lot in common with the failed economic systems of Soviet-era eastern Europe.” (This video’s rallying cry could be, “Remember the Trabant!” 7:46 min.)

• Two Women is “a cautionary lesson about a politicized health care system where politicians and bureaucrats determine medical priorities.” (4:32 min.)

I had hoped The Lemon would quote one of my favorite lines from Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. To an ill person who does not want treatment a State physician says: But I’m a doctor; I have a right to treat you. Cancer Ward was no comedy – and neither will a government take-over of your personal healthcare decisions.

 

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