SiCKO

I saw Michael Moore's new movie SiCKO. If you're not in the States now but you're planning on going back, wait till you get there before watching it. You might not want to go back if you don't.

The movie is very good. Much more mature than his other films. I'm sure it has the half-truths and the cherry-picking problems his other movies have, but the premise is something I've known for a while: the American health care system is shameful. It's shameful and it's dangerous and I'm concerned about trusting my family to it.

Here's a list of the countries that have better systems than the United States, according to the World Health Organization (2000):
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica

I've some thinking to do.