erika-2-160114
It was too hard to watch to see all the bad things that could happen when people do not get the things that they need. One thing i liked is that the film told it as it is and not cover things up.
golestanehmahdi
In the United States, private insurance companies' reviewers protect patients partially from unnecessary medical treatments done by doctors for more profit. On the other hand, If in the UK, unlike Central Practitioners, specialists and surgeons are paid as fee-for-service which encourages them to do so. And the paying party is a government which approves every treatment doctors done. because it is not important for it how much it cost.Related Note: I have a medical innovation that avoids from medical malpractice and I urgently need help or this innovation will be buried with me please inform your boss(stuck in a hard situation)
Python Hyena
Sicko (2007): Dir: Michael Moore / Featuring: Michael Moore: Michael Moore's often hilarious documentary that attacks American health care and in particular the attitude that translates to him from the government as indicated through those whom he interviews. There is a couple whose medical bills were so high that they were forced to sell their house and move in with their daughter. Another gentleman is still working at 79 years of age. Moore also introduces those who went unnoticed after their heroism at 911. American health care is so bad that Moore sought answers elsewhere only to learn that Canada, Great Britain, France, and Cuba have tremendous care. He brings out the sorrows of his guests while still taking hilarious crack shots at politicians particularly George Bush. His films often attack or address issues concerning our corrupt society, or more often our government. He does this famously with the humour and sarcasm that attracts viewers who made Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 911 tremendous hits. He manages to pull off a film every bit as effective as those other titles but that may also pend to how one feels about his political views. The film concludes with a humorous scene where Moore lugs his dirty laundry towards the White House with claims that they can do it. He is attempting to fight our battles for all those too ill to care anymore. Score: 10 / 10
wsawyer2
One earlier review title sums it up - short on information, high on anecdotal scare stories. I enjoy Michael Moore as a film-maker. Canadian Bacon was fun, it was a spoof, it was fictional. Sicko cannot be described as 'fictional' but it is no more realistic than Canadian Bacon. No health care system in the world is perfect, the US is certainly no exception. But, the description of the Cuban system was so ludicrously inaccurate and misleading as to be laughable. Can a health care system, where officials of the national blood service knowingly, willfully allow HIV-infected blood to be distributed for transfusions (as was the case in France) be considered exemplary? And the greatest pressure in US hospitals to get patients 'out the door' comes not from private insurance companies but from public-funded programs (Medicare / Medicaid). Outcomes data clearly document that if you have a serious illness, there is no better place to be than the US. If a 12 year old girl severs a digit, a thumb for example, she will probably get excellent, low/no cost wound care in Canada and the UK, and grow up without a thumb. In the US she might even be able to have that thumb surgically re-attached (that is fact, albeit anecdotal), although that is not guaranteed, some insurance programs will not cover the surgery, and the success rate is far from 100%. If Moore had started with the premise, 'Who has had a fantastic experience with health care in the US', he could just as easily have produced a so-called documentary with a very different message, but which would have probably also been equally unrepresentative of reality. Enjoy the movie, but don't take it too seriously.
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