The Sacramento Union, July 13, 2007

Last month, Michael Moore and the California Nurses Association led a rally in Sacramento for government provided health care, what proponents call "single payer." Now Moore's Sicko has finally hit the theaters, and it's time for Americans to know the truth about a government monopoly health system, a sham of a health-care "solution."

At his Sacramento press conference, Moore railed against the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital in Los Angeles, where a patient died of a perforated bowel after lying on the emergency room floor for 45 minutes. Since 2004, the hospital has received more than a dozen state and federal safety citations. Hospital errors included leaving sick patients unattended (which resulted in death for three of them), giving patients the wrong medications and using tasers to restrain psychiatric patients. This hospital is not private, however. It is owned by the County of Los Angeles. So much for reliable government care.

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