I am Michael Moore and anything I say is correct and should not be doubted for even one second. American health care system is messed up. Every middle class and lower citizen in the US seems to think that just because they have health care that means they are fine but it is not until they have a medical emergency, do they realize how utterly screwed they really are. The health care system started to become messed up (if it was ever not messed up) during President Nixon’s time in office. We should just move to Canada or somewhere in Europe where they have universal health care which actually works to benefit the people rather than the elites.
Two senior citizens who always paid their taxes and were “model citizens” their whole life had to sell their home and move in with their children because they could not afford the cost of the husband’s cardio treatment and the wife’s cancer treatment. Another example was that one woman had health insurance and when she had an emergency medical problem, her insurance company bailed out because she had a harmless yeast infection a few years back that she thought wasn’t important enough to mention in her insurance “signup sheet”.
People think that if you pay your taxes and follow the rules like you should, your government will take care of you. Your government will not let you get screwed over by a money hungry medical system.
Insurance companies that want to make a profit (all of them) do not want to bear the cost of an expensive treatment so they just cut the patient off. I do not even need to explain how ridiculous and unfair that is.
The drug act of 2003 which was created to help senior citizens in the US more extensively than standard health care would. What they did not mention while the elitist of that time passed the law, was that the medicine companies would be free to name their price for all the medicine that they provided. If the demand for one medicine increased, the price for it would skyrocket. Price gauging and preying on the needy should be made illegal, but why would it be? Why would the US government help the people that put them in power instead of making more money? Sources: https://www.cms.gov/mmaupdate/
I thought Sicko was an incredibly insightful movie. It was silly and a bit too obvious at some parts but at others, it provided some crucial information that most Americans are blind to. Everyone in America, yes I said everyone, thinks that if you do not have health insurance, you are in big trouble. They are right but after watching Sicko, I realized that having health insurance or being able to afford it isn’t that much better.
