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What's Lacking in "Sicko"?
When it comes to economic decisions, there are always trade offs (取舍).
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The central argument of Michael Moore's movie
"Sicko" -that the cure to the nation health care problems is a single-payer
system-is hardly novel and is certainly worth consideration, whether or not you
agree with it. But in comparing the American system with single-payer plans of
other countries-Britain, France, Canada and Cuba Mr. Moore left out the
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as the anchor (主持人) of "MTV News" , wrote a critique (批评) of the film for MTV's
website. "Sicko," he said, "does a real service" in portraying (描绘) victims of
American insurance companies'-like the people, who died because their only
treatment options were considered "experimental" and therefore not covered.
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When "governments
attempt to regulate the balance between a limited supply of health care and an
unlimited demand for it, they're inevitably forced to ration treatment". Mr.
Loder asserted. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}Mr. Loder cited the
short film "Dead Meat", which presents anecdotes (轶事) of failure. In the
Canadian single-payer system in its one-sidedness, "Dead Meat" , might have made
for a nice double feature with "Sicko", and left movie-goers with a more
complete understanding of the complications of deciding on a health care system
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This all makes an
otherwise "emotionally compelling film not necessarily an intellectually
satisfying one," wrote Darren Barefoot, a Canadian blogger. (博客作者).
A. This is particularly true in health care, a market in which scarce
(稀罕的) goods are ridiculously expensive, but needed by everybody.
B. Mr. Moore also decided to ignore problems in other countries, like
France's high taxes and Britain's cash-short hospitals.
C. But
the film as a whole, he concluded, is "breathtakingly meretricious (似是而非的)," in
large part because of its characterizations of other countries' health care
systems.
D. The problems have been noticed-and criticism is
coming not just from Mr. Moore's detractors (底
E. He ticked off
a number of negative statistics to counter the positive ones offered by Mr.
Moore.
F. Health care is the prevention, treatment, and
management of illness.