by Gloria Allen

Created on: February 03, 2008   Last Updated: July 19, 2011

Filmmaker Michael Moore is wrong, even though his heart may be in the right place.

There are several huge assumptions that Mr. Moore makes:

The first one is that health care should be free to everyone. He made this statement as a guest on Oprah Winfrey's show last year and a woman in Oprah's audience who either works for Hillary Clinton or is privy to her health care plan, responded to Michael Moore's comment by saying, "No. Health care won't be free." Then there was a stunned silence in the room. He was clearly stunned and a look of betrayal swept over his face. He was so convinced that the Democrats were going to give everyone in the United States FREE health care. This is hardly happening, so wake up people.

So putting aside any value judgments about whether or not Moore is advocating socialism or communism - let's look at the practical side of it. Who will pay for this free health care? No doubt his answer would be, "the rich," because in socialized countries that's who pays for it. Ask the rich here if they want to pay for it. No doubt their answer will be a NO! If we force the rich to pay, that's unconstitutional, isn't it?

The next question is, if the US Constitution were violated and the rich were forced to pay for those who can't afford health care, is there enough money from the rich in this country to pay for the uninsured? Probably not. Even if the rich in the US were rightly made to pay for their decent share of taxes, there would still not be enough money to pay for all the people in the US who need it. This is a huge country, unlike Great Britain, from where he makes his comparisons.

Forcing the rich to pay for those who can't afford health care just might bankrupt this country, since money - like it or not, is the force that creates and drives all facets of business, which creates an economy and jobs. Take away all the money from the rich and you got zip left. A third-world country.

The second one that Mr. Moore makes is that the health care costs are exorbitantly high. I do agree with him one hundred percent on this assumption, which is accurate.. The mark-ups on prescription drugs is as high as over 568,958% for a drug like Xanax (yes, you read correctly - that's five hundred sixty nine thousand, nine hundred fifty eight percent over the original cost of the drug). Go to www.anxiety-and-depression-solutions.com/articles/co nventional/pharmaceuticals/realdrugcosts.php and see for yourself all the mark-ups on drugs.

This has got to be the biggest

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