Do you think it is wrong for insurance companies to deny people for being to fat, skinny old?

Sicko has a gross profit of $36,088,030 to date. Moore's contract awards him 50% of profit. Too bad he hasn't donated that profit for health care.

You are right, it did start in the 70's. Teddy Kennedy, with the support of Nixon, sponsored the HMO act which set the stage for today's problems.

Well what we (the public) need to do is make a huge deal out of this... Because it really is.. She was fully covered by the company.. I don't understand how a liver transplant is "experimental".. especially because the doctors knew there was no chance of survival without it. There have been protests against the company.. one i think was spiraled by Mark Kirakos.. But it needs to receive a lot more attention.. I think a petition would be a great idea... Would it change anything in terms of legislation? No... But if we make a big enough deal out of it, other insurance companies may be more careful with situations like these... I'm Armenian, so I fallowed the story from the beginning.. It really saddened me to hear that she'd passed

Rather strange conclusions. Everyone on Medicare and Medicaid has universal health care. Everybody in the military gets universal health care. Congress has universal health care. It's not just the people at Guantanamo.

At it's most basic level the whole problem with health care in the US is mainly a problem of adverse selection. You can look up that term in Wikipedia but basically it means that as insurance gets more expensive a correlation starts to exist and get stronger between who needs it and who's likely to buy it. It's the same reason that say, damage waiver insurance is so expensive when you rent a car. The people that buy it are mainly the ones who are most likely to end up wrecking the car.

its called capitalism with the united stated the ceo of major companies want to make load of money. the average ceo make over 55 times the average worker. the people in the hospitls want to make money and when somone cant pay there bill they deny yu like if you want some food but you had no money they would not give the food to you.the drug maker pay off high level head in the government to make sure there will not be any universal health care because if they did people would sto investing and they would lose money. all it comes down to is they ar greedy dont care about anyone except them selfs even thought they say there helping people they really arn't. he in canada no one is turned down even if your not from this country on a trip you break your back they will help you out. watch michael moore's other movie Capitalism: A Love Story in which it shows how capitalism is effecting society but i do believe that obama will give you guys some kind of health care. many companies such as proctor and gamnbal and walmart put life insurence policies on there worker because incase they dies they make millions of dollars on they so watch Capitalism: A Love Story it will tell you why your health care system sucks!

Yes, it's fair. No one should be FORCED into a business transaction with someone else, where they have to LOSE money. It's a form of slavery.

Should YOU be forced to paint my house for $25? No? But that's not fair! My house needs to be painted! So why is it fair to force a business to sell a product for less money than it costs THEM to make it? What if it were your business, and you were selling hot dogs, that cost you $.25 each . . . should you be forced to sell them by the case, for the same $.25?

I think you are severely misinformed.

Insurance is ALL about "we", not "me". It's based on large groups of people with similar characteristics, and the estimated claims costs of the group are divided among the group. When politicians interfere, and say, "oh, you cannot charge more than $800 per person for insurance", then the only way a company can stay in business, is to refuse to write insurance on people whose expected claims are WELL in excess of that $800 a month. That would typically be the elderly, the obese, the ill.

Insurance companies do NOT "charge" for drugs. Pharmaceutical companies charge for drugs. Insurance companies do NOT "turn down cancer treatments". Not in the US, anyway - but the delays for chemo in countries with socialized medicine, like Canada, or the UK, mean that many cancer patients die before their turn for treament comes up.

Hospitals are NOT "free nursing homes". They cannot treat people for free, any more than you can run a hot dog stand and give all your dogs away for free.

Guess you're not watching the news much - the UK is trying to move OUT of socialized medicine, because it's NOT working. You haven't seen the lines for services in Canada? France, people pay 21% income tax ONLY for health care, and they ran $9 BILLION in debt, last year only. Oh, and their population is about 64,000,000 - six percent of the population in the usa. Extrapolated, if applied to the USA, IF everyone's income taxes got another 21% tacked on (like that's going to happen - 50% of our population pays NO income tax), we'd have $150 billion in debt added, EVERY YEAR.

Our maternity statistics suck. That's because almost half our babies are born by c-section, because it makes more money for the doctor, hospital, and cuts down on malpractice judgements. But the USA has the absolute LOWEST cancer death rates in the entire world.

Everyone who can afford it, comes to the USA for cancer treatment. They sure don't go to France.

Don't let the politicians and socialists fool you - health care is NOT a right. Food is not a right. If you have to choose, food is more important than health care. Don't talk about free healthcare for all, until we've got free food for all. Anything else is hypocritical, and working towards an alternate agenda.

1. Guantanamo Bay is not in the U.S.

2. "Based on" fact means "not fact", in other words "fiction".

3. New York tried not allowing insurance companies to deny anyone insurance. The insurance companies raised the prices there so high that there were more, not fewer, uninsured individuals as a result. Letting the insurance companies deny insurance to a few, and keep their prices down, keeps most of the country insured. If they cannot deny anyone, and prices go so high that almost no one can afford insurance, that is worse.

First of all...'too' is the word you're looking for.

Secondly...nobody goes to Somalia to become a doctor...they go to Hopkins and many of the other great American hospitals.

People in other countries come HERE to get health care because it's better. 27th on whose list?

Yes, if you're fat, then you're part of the problem...not part of the solution.

We wont have that problem by 2014 when everyone can be insured regardless of medical conditon.

Maybe you should become an "Activist" or "High Priestess of The Universe...

(If you run for President, I'll vote for ya'...)

For a 19-year-old college student, you claim to have "seen" quite a lot.;