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From the previews I see he makes the point that the UN ranks the USA at #37, just above Slovenia, in health care.

Posted by clarkjohnsen on July 13, 2007 at 08:19:16:
And he extolls Cuba.

Very handy for a propagandist, that name, Slovenia, so reminiscent of "slovenly", "slob", etc.

But Michael Moore, the fiction filmmaker, is a highly dishonest man. Just for a moment take a detour into Christopher Hitchins' mind:

With Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, however, an entirely new note has been struck. Here we glimpse a possible fusion between the turgid routines of MoveOn.org and the filmic standards, if not exactly the filmic skills, of Sergei Eisenstein or Leni Riefenstahl.

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability.

Indeed. Now, back to that UN list.

A quick study of the situation reveals that their rankings are more-or-less determined by a populace's insurance coverage, the assumption being that without "insurance", whether national or private, there is little or no care:One key recommendation from the report is for countries to extend health insurance to as large a percentage of the population as possible.

A lesser-regarded factor is "responsiveness", and here we read: The nations with the most responsive health systems are the United States, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Canada, Norway, Netherlands and Sweden.

But all is wonderful in that beautiful communist isle of Cuba, medi-wise, one gathers. Cuba is a shining star just south of big bad capitalist America. But where on the UN's list does Cuba appear? Does Michael Moore, that big fat liar, ever tell you?

Ladies and gentlemen, Cuba ranks... 39th!

clark