Some say M. Moore in Sicko distorted truth and only described one side, so which is the other side?

Answer 1

Being a Canadian he may have looked only on the good side, there are some waiting periods for non threatening treatments, and corruption has made those waiting lines longer but overall I would not change it for anything else.

Answer 2

Yes Moore always distorts the truth, he is a Propagandamentarian.
Corporations get an undeserved bad rap. If you want health insurance, you have to pay for it, either way. You can pay really high taxes so the government can cover you or you can pay the permiums and get the plan you want. If you are disabled or poor, you are covered with SSI and Medicaid. That means we pay higher taxes and premiums to cover them.
There were two examples that Moore used, the guy needing a transplant and the woman and her daughter. In both instances, it was not the insurance company that was at any fault, it was the guy needing a transplant and the woman whose daughter died.
They should have honored their deal with the insurance company. If you are healthy, get insurance. When you are sick, it's too late. Why should an insurance company insure anyone with a pre-existing condition? If you owned the insurance company, would you? The woman whose daughter died, the daughter died because of the mother's negligence, not the insurance company. She should have had the ambulance take her daughter to the right hospital and she didn't. She didn't get a cab to take her to the right hospital until it was too late. That wasn't the fault of the insurance company.
A deal is a deal, if you get insurance when you are healthy, you will qualify for it. Get it when you're young and it's less expensive.
If you let the government handle it, it will cost you a fortune in taxes, if you pay taxes.

Answer 3

The 'other side' is the side where if you do have health insurance you get screwed anyway. Private insurance is 'for profit'...that means over and above expenses there has to be 'return on investment'. It's not even that simple....insurance companies 'invest' their incoming premium dollars and make a significant profit on the dollars you give them. Your money...their profit! Don't you wish all your friends would give you a certain amount of money every month that you could invest and all the profit would be yours? Of course you do! Insurance companies also 'underwrite'...that means if they don't like you for any reason they won't insure you. Too old? Too bad. Been sick? Take a hike, loser! Engage in sports or fly a plane or ride a motorcycle or have a genetic disease in your family? Fergetaboutit! Add insult to injury and a lot of times these bums won't pay off anyway, or you'll have to go to war to make them. The private health insurance companies have turned into a legal mafia.....Moore may have been dramatic with his trip to Cuba, but he was right on with the essentials. The health insurance industry lies, cheats, steals and they really don't care who knows it because there's no competition...when the feds set up their own insurance company people will wonder why we had to wait so long for such a good deal. By the way, health insurance is going up 6% after the 1st of the year....In the last decade premiums have quadrupled....has your income?

Answer 4

The other side it that health care elsewhere isn't all that great.

To wit, Cuba may have better ACCESS to health care, but it ranks below the US.

Some feel that Moore just grabbed the high profile cases that are the exception to the rule.

Also, what do other countries have to pay for this "free" health care?

(These are just the arguments that I have heard, OK? The truth is out there, if you will seek it)

Answer 5

I am simply curious, if Cuba's health care system is so great, why did Castro import doctors from Germany? If nationalized health care is so great, why do people need to wait months, if not years for procedures that take weeks in the U.S.? If the U.S. system is so bad, why does anyone from Europe, Canada, etc. with money come HERE to get treated? Moore is an expert at creating films that say what he wants them to say, whether there is any actual evidence to support what he is saying or not. If you shoot enough film, you can make ANYTHING look true to a majority of people. That is what Michale Moore does, and that is the only thing he does, make propaganda films to support his blatant anti-freedom socialist agenda.

Answer 6

He doesn't report how much our specialists, pharmaceuticals, and hospitals are making from all of this.

Micheal Moore is good at what he does but he doesn't give a full picture of what is actually going on.

Just like another person said in another question, Micheal Moore gives a watered down version of the problems.

Even Fahrenheit 9-11 was way too watered down.

Answer 7

John Stossel had a good interview with Michael Moore on 20/20 and presented well the other side.
Here's an article by him you might find helpful.

Answer 8

The other side is the corporate party line -- that profit is good, and that making profit by reducing treatment is acceptable.

The thing is -- anyone in the health care profession has known for over a decade that the problems exist -- all Moore did is make it public.

And yes, his movie was slanted and biased -- but that doesn't change the reality of what it showed -- just whether you consider those actions to be good or bad.

Answer 9

well 1st he calls his works a documentry which is false becuase by definition they state facts not lies and they are not bias to support one side and not the other.

He forgets to mention a lot of things that would show National health care in a bad light if it is so good show all of it and let people decide.

He fails to mention

high taxes
Long waits for simple procedures
Underfunded Medical facilities and staff

Oh yeah look up the MSRA virus that occurs in British hospitals due to a lack of cleaning staff becuase they dont have the budget to pay for it.

NHS workers planning walk out and boycots.

Not enough doctors/patient ratio

I had to wait 1 1/2 years to get on a dentist patient list becuase a lack of dentist becuase they dont want to work for the money they make. I had to have 12 temp filings put in while on the waiting list becuase they were not allowed to put in a permanet one while I was not a patient.

Moore just put out the roses are red stuff.

Answer 10

The other side is that in a free society you get what you pay for.

Want healthcare like in Canada or Europe? Fine, you pay heavy taxes and wait in line. Might have to wait months for a critical procedure.

Want healhcare like in America? If you have insurance through your job, you get the best healthcare in the world, with a minimum waiting time. If you don't have health insurance, then you hoof it to the county hospital and wait in line, like they do in Europe or Canada.

Answer 11

The downside issues of socialized medicine.. my neighbor in England waited 4 years for a hip transplant, and went on the list the day after his surgery to get the other one done hopefully in 4 years time.

Would anyone in America be willing to be so patient??