So lately I have been feeling pretty uneducated about the Healthcare Reform that is going on in our Government today. I have been doing some things to figure out my stance on the issue and recently watched the documentary "Sicko" by Michael Moore. Obviously this movie is biased and leans toward the liberal side, but I like Michael Moore's movies and think they are very researched yet he puts a sarcastically American humor into them. The movie basically talks about how 50 million of the 300 million Americans have no health insurance and how this effects people. Some of our government officials tell us how bad this could end up because we will have "socialized" healthcare. We will end up like Socialist countries like Soviet Union and this would be terrible because doctors won't be able to choose where they want to practice, and people will DIE waiting for procedures and surgeries to be performed on them.
So Michael Moore went to a few countries with this so called "Socialist" healthcare like Canada and Great Britain. He talked to people in hospitals, people he knew, people on the street, people who e-mailed him there stories. They all are disgusted with our system, and that people are turned away and die because of being denied for procedures, or people that have their lives ruined by medical debt. Living, and having fingers reattached, and cancer treatment shouldn't have a price on it if it doesn't have to.
It was also VERY interesting to here from some former CEO's of multi-billion dollars Health Insurance companies who talked about spending the rest of their lives guilt stricken with the deaths they've caused just to save money for their company. My problem with these companies is that they are using our health problems to make a profit and do so by denying coverage to people in need......
That is all I am going to say because I feel like I could go on forever! Lemme know you're guys' opinion on the matter!
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yes! great topic, I totally agree, our healthcare system is awful. I recently talked to a foreign exchange student from Portugal, and she too was disgusted by our system. She said they have free healthcare and it is not a problem.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree, good share in voice. Free Health care could totally work if we just stopped worrying about profit all of the time. Money is winning out over quality of life for millions of people. It's so unfair. I laughed so hard at the end of the trailer when Michael Moore called the people in prison with better health care than 911 workers "Evil Doers" hahaha! I really want to see this movie now!
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