Eleven Years Later
"I read your very moving tribute to your father. It impressed me so much that I cut it out and carried it around, re-reading it from time to time. I have been trying to start a discussion in the country on what we owe each other on the edge of a new century. Your wonderful piece certainly will help." -- Bill Clinton, in a 1996 handwritten note to journalist W.E. Gutman
W.E. Gutman on 'SiCKO':
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Eleven years later, I am now under the care of an otherwise excellent doctor who recognizes me only by my chart and grants me less than three minutes of his time. He recently complained that he is at the mercy of “vulgar paper pushers” who dictate how he is to practice his craft and what medicines he can dispense.
To say that the U.S. medical establishment may be hazardous to your health is an understatement. It is in fact sicker than the patient and the prognosis, deftly rendered by Michael Moore in his latest blockbuster, “Sicko,” offers a somber assessment of an industry more interested in profits than human health and lives.
The film could be the catalyst Americans have waited for to demand a radical resuscitation of a moribund medical care system.
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CLiCK here to read Gutman's full piece
