Do you think the movie sicko is true?

Answer 1

that we don't have universal health care like the rest of most of the world dose , yea. yes its true the republican butt holes don't want you to have it? most likely. Oh lets not forget how honest the insurance and the pharmaceutical companies are, they are all for helping people right?

Answer 2

This is the only "documentary" I have seen by Michael Moore. All documentaries have a slant - probably it is impossible to make a completely objective one - but Moore's films (assuming all are similar in style) are in my opinion of the lowest grade. Sicko was incredibly manipulative - to the point that it loses almost all of its credibility.
Moore sifts through stats and finds anomolies and portrays them as generalizations. For instance, he finds a third world country whose infant mortality rates are lower than ours and uses this to claim our health system is poor. He conveniently leaves out a the fact that this is clearly an exception (if it's true at all) - most third world countries have high infant mortality rates - higher than ours. He also forgets to mention that in many third world countries (and perhaps in many of the core countries, as well), it is hard to gather accurate data due to rudimentary and/or poor research methods. Yet Moore takes what he wants to believe as the gospel.
I don't believe our health care system is great and certainly not the best. The medical insurance industry is plausibly one of the most shameless in the history of our country.
I, however, would have appreciated this film more if Moore had taken his time so he could have made a documentary with integrity rather than a sloppy propaganda film to placate an audience he knew would believe whatever he told them.
What he seems to suggest is that almost everywhere else in the world there is a perfect health system, but the United States won't adopt it because the government is afraid of communism. I think the only thing he got right was that our health system does suck - but did Moore really have to tell us that?

Answer 3

Well, you could say it is Michael Moore's spin on the truth. It is true that we have nearly 50 million uninsured Americans. It is true that medical debt is the number one reason for personal bankruptcy and many people lose their houses and posessions because of it.

It is true that "Healthcare" is an industry in the United States, and it's purpose is to turn a profit, not to help people. It is true that the cost of healthcare is completely out of control and out of the reach of the uninsured.

But, the countries featured with universal healthcare: The UK, France, Canada and finally Cuba, are not the eutopias Michael Moore makes them out to be. There can be long waits for certain care and to see a different doctor or specialist.

I have a Canadian friend who wanted a second opinion from a specialist. It took over a year for her to see a new specialist and get that second opinion.

There is little room for competition in a socialized system, which discourages innovation and progress in medicine. The US is still the world leader in medical breakthroughs and Drug development.

While some new drugs are priced outrageously in the US, some countries with socialized medicine will not make them available to their citizens at all. Or they will not cover the drugs under the national health plan, so they are available, but priced out of range of the ordinary citizen. Of course, without insurance, US citizens cannot afford them either.
Yet, it is true that many drugs are subsidized by foreign governments and made cheaply available to citizens.

Taking a group of US citizens to Cuba to be treated and having them treated so well seemed a little bit like hyperbole to me. I was in a European country with socialized medicine with a condition and as a US citizen they refused to treat me. It was not a life threatening condition, but important enough that I had to cut my trip short and fly home.

Michael Moore painted a scary picture, and a shameful one, that people should pay attention to. Poor people should not be dumped out of hospitals still in their hospital gowns. People with insurance should not lose their homes because they get sick.

I recently turned down a job with a small employer because I feared his private insurance would deny me coverage based on pre-existing conditions. We shouldn't have to limit our choices and live in fear at the hands of insurance companies. But I'm not sure what the best alternative is.

Answer 4

It is, but Michael Moore movies are one sided.

Answer 5

No. The Canadian system sucks. It takes two to six months to see a specialist, a further nine months to get a MRI, and then three years to get surgery.

Answer 6

Not true.

Answer 7

ah, yes it is.