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| Moore Takes 9/11 Responders to Cuba |
| 2007-04-16 |
| Film director Michael Moore has taken Ground Zero responders to Cuba for medical treatment in a bid to show that Fidel Castro's socialized medicine is better than health care in the U.S., the New York Post reports. The director of "Roger & Me" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" took the responders to Cuba as part of his latest film, "Sicko," which examines American drug companies. The move has angered some who say that Moore is using the ailing Ground Zero workers as "pawns." "He's using people that are in a bad situation and that's wrong; that's morally wrong," Jeff Endean, a former SWAT commander from Morris County, N.J., who spent a month at Ground Zero and suffers from respiratory problems, told the New York Post. But others say the workers were pleased with their Cuban visit. "From what I heard through the grapevine, those people that went are utterly happy," John Feal, who runs the Fealgood Foundation to help raise money for responders, told the Post. "They got the Elvis treatment." |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #9 I've muled in Asprin, Tums and Band-Aides. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-04-16 16:44 |
| #8 Cuban doctors use textbooks, drugs, procedures and equipment developed in every country on earth except Cuba. Yet it is superior? They use bailing wire to hold together their '47 Chevys, but their artificial hips are world-class? I think MM just went to Cuba to get gastric bypass on the downlow. |
| Posted by: Angesh and Tenille7326 2007-04-16 15:10 |
| #7 Okay, Fidel...you keep MM and we buy 10 million tons of sugar per year, deal ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-04-16 13:30 |
| #6 why not come to the UK and wait 2 years or so for treatment? It comes with a free dose of MRSA. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-04-16 11:12 |
| #5 Maybe we can make a deal with Castro (if he is alive) to keep Moore. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-04-16 11:12 |
| #4 Makes sense because we are always hearing stories about people flocking to Cuba for medical treatment. Maybe Mickey Moore should park his arse in Cuba if he loves it sooooo much. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-04-16 10:32 |
| #3 and remember, when Fidel got sick, they brought in a Spanish Doctor.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-16 05:12 |
| #2 If they got no special treatment and they are happier there, perhaps it ought to be looked into. Time to ask the locals there how they like the system, and what their experiences have been under similar circumstances . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-04-16 03:36 |
| #1 More like the Dean Reed treatment. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2007-04-16 01:44 |