In Sicko Micheal Moore argues that the American system of private medical insurance is a disaster, and that a state-run system, such as exists nearly everywhere else in the industrialized world, would be better.
Moore use people as props to prove his argument.He shows a man who cut off two of his fingers with a power saw and finds outs that it would cost $12,000 to save one of them, and $60,000 to save the finder. He had no health insurance and could only scrape together enough money to salvage the $12,000 finger. Then there's a woman whose husband was prescribed new drugs to fight his cancer, but their insurance company wouldnt prove it because the drugs were too "experimental". Her husband as a result died. There's another woman who made an trip to a hospital for emergancy treatment to learn her insurance company wouldn't pay for the ambulance that took her there because it hadn't been "pre-approved." Then their was a middle aged man, who suffered three heart attacks, and his wife, who developed cancer who were made bankrupted by the cost of co-payments and other expenses not covered by their health insurance, and have to move in with their son and his family.Also theirs a 79-year-old man who must work to continue have benefits because medicare won't cover all of the medications he needs.
Moore continues to argue that in other countries, like France, Canada, and Britain, health systems are far better and free. Moore takes us to these countries to see a few clean, efficient hospitals, where treatment is not only quick but caring. Moore show's doctors happy with their government-regulated salaries; and to listen to patients more then statisfied with their socialized health system, then are "corprate" health care.A patient in a British hospital run by the country's National Health Service says, "No one pays. It's all on the NHS. It's not America."
I found Sicko to be saddening while it still have moments of true humoris satire. I felt the movie does dodge some of the larger political questions about healthcare reform, like what exactly we should do to change are current system.
Moore use people as props to prove his argument.He shows a man who cut off two of his fingers with a power saw and finds outs that it would cost $12,000 to save one of them, and $60,000 to save the finder. He had no health insurance and could only scrape together enough money to salvage the $12,000 finger. Then there's a woman whose husband was prescribed new drugs to fight his cancer, but their insurance company wouldnt prove it because the drugs were too "experimental". Her husband as a result died. There's another woman who made an trip to a hospital for emergancy treatment to learn her insurance company wouldn't pay for the ambulance that took her there because it hadn't been "pre-approved." Then their was a middle aged man, who suffered three heart attacks, and his wife, who developed cancer who were made bankrupted by the cost of co-payments and other expenses not covered by their health insurance, and have to move in with their son and his family.Also theirs a 79-year-old man who must work to continue have benefits because medicare won't cover all of the medications he needs.
Moore continues to argue that in other countries, like France, Canada, and Britain, health systems are far better and free. Moore takes us to these countries to see a few clean, efficient hospitals, where treatment is not only quick but caring. Moore show's doctors happy with their government-regulated salaries; and to listen to patients more then statisfied with their socialized health system, then are "corprate" health care.A patient in a British hospital run by the country's National Health Service says, "No one pays. It's all on the NHS. It's not America."
I found Sicko to be saddening while it still have moments of true humoris satire. I felt the movie does dodge some of the larger political questions about healthcare reform, like what exactly we should do to change are current system.
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