Michael Moore's Sicko Review - A Documentary of the "Sickening" Health Care System in America!

There couldn't be a better word to describe Michaelgirl did arrive to the HMO's affiliated hospital, the little girl
Moore's latest film "Sicko". Traveling through the healthMychelle, was pronounced "expired."
care world in the United States brings on a new era ofMichael Moore also takes note of other countries
realization of how "Sickening" the health insurancehealth care systems compared to the American
industry of America really is.system and profiles countries such as Canada,
Almost 50 Million Americans live without healthEngland, and France - all which provide a free health
insurance in America. As bad as that is, somecare system.
insurance companies make it extremely difficult to getIn Canada, they can give their thanks to Tommy
any insurance claims at all for the rest of the 250Douglas, who implemented the universal health care
million Americans that do have health insurancesystem, known as the Universal Medicare Legislation
coverage.created in 1961.
Sicko, documents a case where a man hadIn England, they have the NHS - National Health
accidentally sawed off two of his fingers, the indexService, which provides the majority of healthcare in
finger and the middle finger. When the man was takenEngland, from general practitioners to hospitals,
to the hospital, he was given a choice - sew back thelong-term healthcare, dentistry and ophthalmology .
index finger for $12,000 or sew back the middle fingerFounded in 1948 it has become an integral part of
for $60, 000 - his choice was to keep his index finger,British society, culture and everyday life.
and keep a place for his sacred wedding ring.In France, they have a system which offers unlimited
This is not an uncommon story in the American healthsick days, vacation time starting at 4 weeks, and to
insurance industry, as Sicko depicts that healthtop it off, free nurse and nanny care for new mothers.
insurance companies will do whatever it takes to denyFrance was also given the title of "best health system
a recipient benefit claims.in the world" by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Another example from Sicko is of a child who wasin June 2000.
taken to the nearest hospital, after her high fever ofWhy is it that countries like Canada, England and
104 would not come down. When she and her motherFrance are able to offer their citizens free health care,
got to the hospital, they were informed that their HMO,and be so generous and kind, and then on the other
Kaiser Permanente, would not cover the little girlsside, the American system being so cruel and
health treatment costs, and that she has to be takencold-hearted?
to a hospital that is affiliated with their HMO KaiserSicko, explores the tragic and failing health care
Permanente. After arguing and desperately pleadingsystem in the United States of America, and can be
with the hospital to treat the child there, and notviewed nationwide hitting the box offices on June 29th,
transfer her to a different hospital, by the time the little2007.