Sicko

Michael Moore’s sicko was an excellent film that portrayed the American health care system “crisis”. He compared the American system to not only ours but also France, England and Cuba. Finding people across America with stories of how their health system failed them. I believe that Moore brought up a good point that for a country to function it needs it s people healthy, so that country should take care of them. Overall, it was a good film.

Well… I had some problems with the fact that he praised the Canadian health care system as perfect. Because as we all know, it really is not. There are some serious problems that need fixing. These problems are that of the long waiting line in emergency rooms when getting medical attention is the most important. Although I can understand Moore was just trying to make the American health care system look bad, he should have made a note on the current issues with our health care system.

In addition, this film made me think about the best country on earth, France. Even though I stayed there for 6 months, nobody really explained to me what their health care system was about. In Sicko, I learned that it has the best health care system in the world! Maybe that’s why their country is one of the only countries in all of Europe to have a population that is increasing instead of declining.

So is there any hope for the American health care system? Well Michael Moore does not answer this question but for all the people that are suffering because of a bad system, I hope that their new president will try his best to fix this problem.