The U.S congress debates health care reform this summer (2009). The idea is to force healthy people to buy private health insurance, then take all the unhealthy people off private companies' rolls and stick the taxpayers with the bill, so they can make even more money. The government will subsidize the unhealthy pool with taxpayer money. Good time to watch Michael Moore's classic documentary on health care and get involved.

In Sicko Moore explains, through a series of anecdotes, that nearly every developed country in the world, and many less developed countries, like Cuba, all have universal health care provided by the government. And most of them provide much better health care than the U.S., which ranks 37th in the world according to the WHO, despite spending more on health care than any other developed country (so much for free market efficiencies).

Moore defies the critics' lies through personal interviews with foreign nationals who explain that there are few limitations on their health care because all doctors and hospitals are part of the same government plan. So they can choose to see any of them any time. The myth about long waits and limited options in such countries was contrived by the health insurance industry to combat health care reform in the 90s. The critics of universal health care who spew these lies often use non-emergency waiting time figures, where the U.S. does a little better. But throw in the more important emergency cases and countries with universal health care fair much better than the U.S. Basically this means that other countries are busy treating emergency cases to save peoples' lives, while the U.S. is more preoccupied with expensive elective surgery for fat, rich people who want plastic surgery or preventative measures to help them live longer while the poor people in emergency rooms wait to die. Watch Sicko to find out what other lies they've been telling...