Medicine At Gunpoint: The Sicko Crowd's Deadly Rx For America By Peter Barry Chowka

"Michael Moore has described his new film Sicko as a 'comedy,' but there's nothing funny about it. With its radical prescription for the takeover of all of American health care by the federal government, it's more like a tragedy -- a very dark tragedy that is guaranteed to lead to an unhappy ending.

Sicko, which took in an estimated $4.5 million during its opening weekend while garnering 91% positive critical reviews so far, is emerging as an unlikely catalyst for the headiest of agendas: the establishment of socialized medicine in the United States in the form of single payer universal health care. Such a wholesale paradigm shift in an area that comprises one-sixth of the nation's economy is extremely dangerous, more than anything else facing the American people today with the possible exception of another major terrorist attack. If they are enacted, Moore's and his compadres' prescriptions for American health care are sure to be deadly, not only to our individual health but to our freedom, our autonomy, and our very way of life."

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