Sicko – The Movie
By Karl
Abrams
Michael Moore has done it again,
Venetians. His documentary film “Sicko” about America’s
dysfunctional healthcare system will make you laugh and cry for 2-hours straight
as you come face to face with the countless and absurd failures of our
profit-driven corporate health care system.
Using a variety of now legendary Moore-esque
techniques, we are taken on a long overdue epic journey dramatizing
simultaneously the heart-rending problems faced by 47 million uninsured
Americans (13%) and the shameful, cost-cutting, obscene profit driven corporate
treatment of the rest of us who have health
insurance.
Moore shows how former and
disgusted HMO employees were given bonuses to deny treatment to people who
thought they were insured. He tells the story of an insured woman who learned
that she would have to pay for her emergency ambulance to the hospital because
she did not get the trip pre-approved.
Moore has no hesitation in
demonstrating, time and time again, the failures of the American system and the
amazing successes of the French, Cuban, English, and Canadian health care
programs. Single-payer health care works in other countries and does so with a
compassionate efficiency that makes us all wonder why it took this long to
realize. Moore asks why Ronald Reagan’s rantings during the 1950’s
about the evils of socialized medicine were so convincing to virtually all of
America. Was it out of such fear mongering that America’s health care
system has slipped over the years to just above Slovenia? This film will in
convince you, I believe, to join a new struggle to convince our politicians that
if single-payer health insurance works in so many other countries, why not here
in America.
Instead of 31% of every
“health dollar” going to corporate profit, a mere 3% will allow
single-payer insurance to work efficiently. (Moore points out that opposition by
most of our politicians results from their being bought out long ago by the
drug-health care corporate complex).
This film is a must-see. It clearly
shows how our present health care system is a failure and will remain
antiquated, selfish, and profit-driven. Go see the movie, wipe away your tears,
and get involved in the health care revolution of the 21st century.
Posted: Wed - August 1, 2007 at 07:00 AM