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The big news on CNN has been Michael Moore’s on air fight with Wolf Blitzer and Sanjay Gupta.  For those who have not seen the clips, they are everywhere on the web.

To Michael Moore’s credit, this has been his best effort yet.  It’s also his most careful attempt to make sure the criticisms of the facts in his movie don’t distract from his movies message.

I have few pulbic criticisms of Sicko, but one I do have is Michael Moore’s continual assertion that health care in other countries Canada, Cuba, France, and the U.K. are “free.”   This is of course completely wrong.  Whether or not they are better is up for debate.  But you cannot argue that they are free.  After watching him on Larry King Live, he refuses to acknowledge that health care costs money whether its collected from taxes or private pay.

In the same inteview Michael complains about the cost of the war.  Cost?  Why, according to his logic, the war is free.  You’re not paying for it.  It comes from your tax dollars.

To assert this would be insane and Micheal Moore would never stand for it.  Why does he follow the insane logic on television and make himself look completely ignorant?  I think he’s convinced that the public will be more responsive the bigger the horror show the health care system is.

The truth his people are smart.  They know that whether you pay in private or in taxes, it costs money.  All his rabid assertions do is further reduce his message.