“Sicko” — Did Michael Moore Get It Right? A Comparison of Emergency Rooms on Two Continents

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Michael Moore made a splash with his documentary, “Sicko,” about the disarray of the American health care system.

Three weeks ago, an American woman executive in her early sixties—let’s call her Joyce—needed to see a doctor fairly late at night in the little town of Füssen, Germany. My wife, Peggy, and I went with her to the emergency room of the local hospital.

It turned out that earlier in the year, Joyce had the very same symptoms during a business trip to the Midwest and went to the emergency room of one of the biggest hospitals in Omaha.

The comparison of how Joyce was treated in these two health care facilities for exactly the same illness is eye-opening.

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