This is an amazing video by Michael Moore who investigate the american health care system. He is also famous from filming the documentary Farenheit 9/11. Its the kind of video everyone should watch.
Sicko talks about US health insurance and pharmaceutical company who operate base on for-profit. The insurance company deny many policy claim although the patient need them critically while the pharmaceutical company bribe many US congress including George Bush to pass a policy that enable the pharmaceutical company to charge their medicine at a high price/watever price they wanted.
In US there is no free medical care. So those who could not pay are usually abandon by sending them away in taxi cab to union rescue mission. After that he compare US with Canada, UK, France and Cuba that have universal health care (meaning free health care).
Spoilers ahead~
Some of the part that caught my attention is the guy who accidentally cut his middle and ring finger while working. He went to the hospital and the doctor told him that his middle finger will cost $60k while his ring finger cause $16k. He decide to keep the ring finger and throw off his middle finger. Another part that are interesting is that Hilary Clinton has tried to past a bill for the universal health care but due to many protest from big company, she could not past the bill. Eventually instead of fighting to pass the bill, the health care paid her off for her silence. There is also a touching scene where Michael Moore brought some 9/11 volunteers who suffered illness as a result of the collapse building (they could not claim anything from the $50 million fund to help rescue worker of 9/11 because congress make a difficult process out of it) by bringing them to Cuba. A rescue worker who suffer breathing problem found out that the pharmacy shop there sell her breathing medicine for 5 cent while in US it is sold for $120.
After all this i begin to appreciate universal health care in Malaysia. Malaysia government health care is practically free and i am very great full for it. However they still have many things that they can improve on. For starters I think it would be nice if they can cut short queuing time :)
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