Christopher R
Michael Moore tries to use the film Sicko to explore how the American health care system works and the people who are pulled through the cracks by the big bad money hungry health insurance companies. Viewing health insurance companies as an organization that tries to make money opposed to helping people Michael Moore also tries to bring out the differences between the countries that have socialist health care, showing the benefits of having free health care for everyone. Sicko also uses views the history of the way that health care came to be in America.
1. First Lady, Hilary Clinton tried to make strides in helping Bill Clinton get to a better insurance policy for Americans but couldn't because of constant anti-socialist health care propaganda.
2. A rich person in America has a lower life expectancy than a poor person in France.
The people in France do have a longer life expectancy than Americans, according to the sources, the life expectancy at birth continues to grow. The life expectancy for someone who is born in 2010 in France the life expectancy is 81. There are far less articles that are current about the United States life expectancy however many reports says that it is 78. As far as the poor versus wealthy, I don't think this is an actual statistic but based of the 81, 78 average and knowing that the highest 20 percent of income was 42, and the lowest was 2.8 compared to the United States rising poverty rate the amount of the top 10 percent in the United States would be close to the bottom ten percent in France. With these two groups of people the French (ON AVERAGE) would have a longer life expectancy.
And according to this graph compare to this graph, since 1960 the French have been above the United States in life expectancy.
The ideas and feelings that struck me the most crucial were the many different ways that you could be denied from getting health insurance. Most health insurance companies are advertised as places where no one gets turned away, however knowing that some companies have people to go through your history finding different things that could have even been treatable and deny you for these things confuses me. When hearing about this I immediately thought about what Evan Wood’s mother said about not having health insurance but being able to get full treatment for her husband for free. Then I thought about this compared to the woman from the movie who found someone in her husband’s family that could be a perfect person to get bone marrow from. However they were denied for this and subsequently her husband died of the cancer that he was fighting. Companies are denying people for things that they have had in their past and because if it they are suffering now or even worse they were suffering, and now the families are the people who have to deal with the companies decision. Because cancer seems to be one of the more dominant cases that people need treatment for it reminds me of the Cancer Treatment Center of America commercials that are always on television (I know you don’t watch television) talking about never turning down anyone, also start to make me skeptical. Knowing that people who are advertised to help you are people who just wants money is scary.
The most important excerpt that was shown in the movie, were the exposures of the propaganda that was constantly being shown as well as the politicians such as George H. Bush, George W. Bush, and Ronald Regan, referring to the health care. When George H. Bush said ask a Canadian, I felt like he was trying to install fear, into the people he’s supposed to be leading. Then when showing how much bush was brought out for and what Ronald Regan said showed that these people who were elected to help us have other intentions on how they will use the power that they do have.
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