mercy, mercy me
There’s only one thing more annoying than an asshole you don’t agree with. That’s an asshole you DO agree with.
I’m probably doing Michael Moore a disservice, but the only thing I thought was wrong both with Bowling For Columbine and his most recent effort Sicko was the fact that he comes out from behind the camera himself, which can easily be translated as an ego trip.
But despite my aversion to the big guy himself, I recommend you watch Sicko. It really does put the whole Health Service thing into perspective, AND it shows you just what direction Mary Harney is taking this country in via her obsession with co-location.
In Sicko, Moore goes to Canada, Britain, France and Cuba and is amazed by the fact that people get taken to hospital and don’t have to pay before anyone sees them.
I wonder how amazed he would have been if he had come to Ireland?
Never mind the 24+ hour trolley waits.
Never mind the whole “you have no cancer – oh, wait, actually you do” fiasco.
Never mind that everything goes wrong yet noone seems to be to blame.
Imagine a brand new state of the art A&E department lying idle for over a year because the people who are meant to run it don’t feel they have enough staff to get the job done, and noone is willing to loosen the purse strings.
THEN they decide to open the hospital, but ONLY during the day.
In other words – if you get hit by a car right outside this facility after 8pm, you’ll have to be taken across town.
What do you think they call this place?
Wait for it – it’s called MERCY University Hospital.
I swear to God, Oscar-winning Hollywood script-writers couldn’t have done it better.
And if Michael gets wind of it, he’ll have a whole new movie.
I’m probably doing Michael Moore a disservice, but the only thing I thought was wrong both with Bowling For Columbine and his most recent effort Sicko was the fact that he comes out from behind the camera himself, which can easily be translated as an ego trip.
But despite my aversion to the big guy himself, I recommend you watch Sicko. It really does put the whole Health Service thing into perspective, AND it shows you just what direction Mary Harney is taking this country in via her obsession with co-location.
In Sicko, Moore goes to Canada, Britain, France and Cuba and is amazed by the fact that people get taken to hospital and don’t have to pay before anyone sees them.
I wonder how amazed he would have been if he had come to Ireland?
Never mind the 24+ hour trolley waits.
Never mind the whole “you have no cancer – oh, wait, actually you do” fiasco.
Never mind that everything goes wrong yet noone seems to be to blame.
Imagine a brand new state of the art A&E department lying idle for over a year because the people who are meant to run it don’t feel they have enough staff to get the job done, and noone is willing to loosen the purse strings.
THEN they decide to open the hospital, but ONLY during the day.
In other words – if you get hit by a car right outside this facility after 8pm, you’ll have to be taken across town.
What do you think they call this place?
Wait for it – it’s called MERCY University Hospital.
I swear to God, Oscar-winning Hollywood script-writers couldn’t have done it better.
And if Michael gets wind of it, he’ll have a whole new movie.
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