Horrors! A 3rd world country kicked the living hell out of our health care system! Quick, show an abandoned building!!!!

C! There! We're Number 1!

It's never been more crystal clear to me than now - the right is the enemy and they hate anybody and thing that is not like them and will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to keep anybody from ever proving that the USA has fatal flaws.

If we don't stop signing our country up for the nip/tuck school of social and political repair, we are completely fucked.

Love it!

Nothing better than seeing wingnut liars called out...needs to happen more often.

Is that this will only be pointed out online. Given the scope and influence of Hannity, this should be something noted on the evening news and in papers. Guess thats why they're fading into irrelevancy.

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This is the kind of full-press propaganda the USSR would have been proud of. And you wouldn't have had to look very far to find even more horrible states of affairs in the U.S. Just go down to any skid row.

Moore went to Cuba to make a point: it's a third-world country and it still provides for healthcare for ALL its citizens.

He also went to many first-world countries. He could have spent the entire film going to other western countries where people get great care.

Here in Australia, many cutting-edge medical discoveries are made (one researcher just won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Genetics), and guess what...we have universal GOVERNMENT-RUN healthcare.

If Fox News were anything but a propaganda machine, they might do a REAL story on other healthcare systems. Hannity may speak from complete ignorance, but I believe it's pure deceit.

Hannity considers himself a truthful person and this ham-handed attempt to make Cuban hospitals look bad will be blamed on an intern. Hell, even at the hospital in which I work we have closed units. Some of the rooms are being used as storage rooms and I don't believe they clean them on a regular basis.

With editing and effects you can make anything look like whatever you would like, but we all know who's watching Hannity and eating it up and they are not our brain trust, they will probably never question anything he does.

Well, what can you say? Michael Moore smokes him like cheap dope. And yes, Hannity was kinda stupid to actually believe he could take Moore in an interview using that video which was so clearly video of an abandoned something or other. Looked more like a prison to me.

Sham-nity got his ass OWNED! ROFLMAO!! No one is THAT STUPID to fall for that abanondoned prison-like building I bet that is not even Cuba.

Way to go Michael...I was watching this live and couldn't believe Hannity pulled this out of his ass as to undermine Michael Moore's credibilty...the mad scientist laugh was the icing on the cake!

Someone posted figures on subsidies for drug R&D on Crooks and Liars, I've lost the links and have been unsuccessful finding anything credible...any ideas?

the lowest of the low in humanity is to make profits off the sick and needy

what low life country would or could do that

only a country that is warped to the core could advocate that

glad we in america are beyond that, yea right

not only profits but mega profits from the sick and needy

christianity died on the cross

we are the lowest of the low

profits over people even off the sick and needy

lets name two ships reagan

one called 95% have nots and one called 1% have mores

hey that leaves us with a 4% middle class, wow!

and to think the middle class lined up to vote for this man called dutch who hated the middle class

yes I knew dutch reagan and knew he hated unions and the middle class

he was able to destroy both in america pure genius on his part

bye bye middle class even with two and three jobs the middle class is becoming the lower class

third world time in america unless we can find a saviour and then we americans wont have to change just believe in the saviour.

michael moore is one of the few americans that understands the evil of capitalism

with communism man exploits man with capitalism it is the other way around

we and russia are living proof of this axiom.

Hannity is such a TOOL. He has no shame what-so-ever.
It's as if Hannity and Beck are competing to see which one is crazier.

This is the key point Hannity always misses- He cites the best hospitals in the US as being among the best in the world, and the fact you can get many procedures with minimal waiting time-BUT one needs $$$$$$$ to get such treatment. Hannity dismisses the fact many people cab't afford health insurance as unimportant.
Hannity and his FOX minions are rich, and can afford the best health coverage. I work 2 jobs and have no health coverage- so in my view, the health care system in America IS inferior

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No doctors/nurses = NOT A HOSPITAL!

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His target demographic would have believed him if the entire video was done with crayon drawings and puppets.

Besides, I have no doubt that Hannity's insurance coverage is first rate. Maybe he'd like to see how it feels when your dad's insurance company tells him they have a 90-day limit on use of a heart catheter, so the family will have to come up with tens of thousands of dollars within 24 hours or they will pull the plug. NO good ending to the story, and it's way too typical of this Balkanized mess we call the American Health Care System.

The US drug industry has absolutely nothing to do with whether you have universal health care, or single payer, or even socialized medicine. Government-run hospitals can't buy drugs from private companies now? It's ridiculous. (Even sillier: Claiming that the pharma companies are wholly dependent on gouging the US consumers but not everyone else)

Also, fact is, that the USA is by no means at the top of the charts when it comes to pharma research per capita (or per GDP, take your pick), either in the private sector or with publicly funded research.

I even heard some idiot Republican argue this against Switzerland! As if they're not one of the biggest pharma countries in the world! Their pharma revenue per capita is over 10x ours!

Just goes to show how ignorant these folks are. It's the 'everything was invented in the USA' crowd.

I loved to watch Fattity's face when he took it up his lying ass again.

The insert footage of "patients" lying in a couple of beds was so different in its color treatment, texture and tone, it was probably taken on different days with a different camera and recorded on different media.

In fact, those "patients" were, in all probability, nothing other than homeless people who discovered an abandoned building and took refuge in it for some protection from the elements. You know, the same thing many homeless people in the USA do.

Hannity does what googobs of Republicans have been doing for a long time - and with particular vehemence during the last campaign: talking over the other guy, so nobody can hear what he's saying. You'd think when he invites someone as a GUEST on his show, he'd let them speak. For one thing, it is the height of basic foul manners to invite someone over, then drown out anything he has to say.

But this is part of the "winning strategy" of the Republicans. Lacking substance with which to participate in any serious discussing or debating, they proffered lies, smears, cheats and big-time propaganda. Even though we got wise to it early in the campaign, they kept it up! That means they're either too stupid (which I doubt) to see it isn't working, or they have no other strategy available.

Michael Moore sure DID own Hannity, despite his loud diatribes about the terrible, unsanitary Cuban hospitals! He laughed right in the liar's face. Not good manners, either, but when your host behaves like a moronic barbarian, I suppose it's excusable.

FYI, I live in Mexico, which also has a nationalized health coverage (private coverage is still doing well, too). I have it, and used it for 9 days with pneumonia in an IMSS hospital. It's true, you BYO toilet paper, soap and towels. But that's because the money they have is spent on YOU. My coverage can never be "amended," I can never be dumped unless I stop paying my yearly premium. The conditions were simple, basic, no menus, no wallpaper, no TVs in the rooms, no private rooms on demand. But the place was squeaky clean, the care was thorough and professional, and the nurses treated me like family. The food was even better than most institutional food. I don't mind bringing my own TP, soap and towels. What I'm getting is total coverage, no copays, no deductibles, no for-profit influences on the cost of care. ALL office visits, lab tests, prescriptions - totally covered. And the security that it will STAY that way.

When I checked out, it only took 5 minutes to walk down to the pharmacy, get my meds and leave. I didn't have to sign a thing; the paperwork was already done, because I was a member of IMSS. I didn't even have to open my purse once, either.

I pay about $500 U.S. - per YEAR. Younger individuals pay less; families probably pay a bit more. What do YOU pay? Ahem.

Back home, with my severe nerve damage from a spinal disability, I was uninsurable at ANY price.

So YOU tell ME, who's better off, uninsured Americans, or American guests in Mexico? And I can tell you my recovery was not influenced in any way because I didn't have all those lovely little amenities. The focus was entirely on ME, on making me well. Which they did.

Mexico has treated me better than my own homeland did. A point to ponder. But I want my countrymen to have something as good as what I have.

Do you think Hannity is going to try a similar stunt with the Mexican hospitals? Wouldn't put it past him.

The profit motive is what capitalism is all about. For most things, it's great. For areas of our lives which require a large measure of trust (called "fiduciary" relationships), capitalism stinks. In fiduciary relationships, the entire focus is supposed to be on the person. Our capitalist-based health care system has profit as its ONLY motive. The very LAST people we should EVER have placed our trust, for retirement funds or for health care, is with a for-profit entity. They will ALWAYS put profit ahead of its fiduciary responsibility to give you security for your retirement or for your health care. We, the public, have been GOUGED for decades by the profit motive, which should never have been allowed in the health industry, at any level (including pharmaceutical companies, etc.). Now, in trying to liberate ourselves from years of their gouging, they are affronted that we are trying to shake off the yoke of slavery to their bottom lines.

This issue, to the health industry, is comparable to the slave owners who went to war to keep owning their slaves. But we have finally had a bellyful of their absolute control over whether we get care or not, whether we live or die.

Health care reform is, literally an "emancipation proclamation." And long overdue.

Good job, Mr. Moore!