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Finally got to the Michael Moore movie Sicko last night. As I expected after all the interviews of people from Canada, England and France it is very evident that we have been lied to by the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. We have also been ill served by all of our politicians because of all the money they receive from the lobbiest for these companies. Here are the lies being told to us, in no particular order.

• We would need to wait in long lines to receive care - NOT True.
• Needed procedures that would have to be done may take months to schedule - NOT True.
• There won't be enough doctors, maybe true but the reason is that instead of making a salary of about $200,000 per year they want to make more. In other words greed rules. A doctor in London lives in a million dollar home, drives an expensive Audi and gets that $200,000 dollar (translated to US money) for a salary. He likes this system because whatever the patient needs they get.
• Our quality of care would decline - NOT True. We are 34th among modern nations in the quality of our health care. Our infant mortality rate is worse then some developing nations. People in Canada, England and France all have longer life expectancies than us in the USA.

Even if some facts of this movie are not true overall the movie is accurate. By the way, everyone in the previously mentioned countries receive health care as opposed to the US where a large group of people, both insured and not, cannot afford good health.

It is time that we demand that our government kick the insurance companies out of business and to start providing us with the health care that we truly deserve. The reason that we do not get that care now is that there are 4 lobbiest for each legislator and the money that changes hands is in the hundreds of thousands. I noticed that two of the largest recipients of money from the people that want to keep things they way they are now were George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton.

Please pardon the incomplete working of this blog we just set this one up and are in the process of moving all of our old entries to here. We have also moved our photo album, which is still on the move. The photo album may be visited here. With any luck we should have most things moved within this month.

Our previous blog and album were being hosted on Typepad.com. Moving it to a regular web host though allows us to have more control over the blogging tools and the photo album software that we use. For the blog we choose to use Serendipity and for the album Coppermine.

Yesterday Mary and I decided to take a trip to Pensacola FL from our camp site located in Summerdale AL. We have been in this area now for 2 1/2 weeks and really like the campgrounds, the people and the proximity to lots of attractions. What we have noticed though, that has nothing to do with the hurricanes that have gone through here, is the trash along the highways. This is not trash from the hurricanes, which I have talked about before, but junk thrown from vehicles passing by and trucks carrying garbage. Driving along highway 98 to Pensacola we saw paper, plastic bags, cans and bottles all along the road. This is not the only road that has this problem around here. Alabama could be beautiful if they just picked up the trash and educated their populace to stop littering and arresting those that do.