"Sicko" tracks healthcare fiasco to Nixon administration (Spoiler alert)

[antigop]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Moores_new_movie_traces_healthcare_crisis_0619.html

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The film's most interesting scene is an archived White House conversation between then-President Richard Nixon and his aide John Ehrlichman that Moore argues is the starting point of the modern healthcare complex. In the Feb. 7, 1971 recording -- part of the hundreds of hours of Nixon's secret White House tapes -- Ehrlichman explains "health maintenance organizations like Edward Kaiser's Permanente thing." Kaiser Permanente is now the nation's largest HMO.

"Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. ... All the incentives are toward less medical care," Ehrlichman says to Nixon, according to a transcript. "The less care they give them, the more money they make."
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[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. and Nixon's reply...

"I like that" fuggin bastid. :mad:

[Warpy]

4. Still, Nixon is on record for wanting Medicare expanded

just like Johnson had, but was just as afraid as every member of Congress then and now that somebody was going to call him a Socialist.

Of course, it was thanks to his rabid anticommunism and his place in the anti communist witch hunt in the early 50s that Socialism had been demonized to the point that courting the label was political suicide.

So yes, he certainly had a role in creating the problem he knew existed. It's just another example of the law of unintended consequences screwing us all.

[aquart]

2. Good.

Too damn many trying to rehabilitate Nixon in comparison to Bush. Nixon should have died in jail.

[SpiralHawk]

3. HOW perfectly republicon -- the skankiest insult of all time

Republicons acting deliberately to screw the citizens of the United States of America

As usual

Republicons have NO HONOR

[BlooInBloo]

5. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bush DoJ Civil Rights division might argue.

EDIT: But yah, it's a pretty skanky insult.

[Nomad559]

6. The Nixon Scene Is In

This Video Clip

http://en.sevenload.com/videos/IO7WysG/SiCKO

:)