Essay - Sicko the Movie Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007) is a Documentary...

Sicko

***** movie Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007) is a documentary about the health care system in ***** Untied States and how it ***** failing the people who need ***** most. There is no surpr*****e in that simple statement, for ***** people already see the health ***** system as in need of reform, ***** efforts to do so have been offered for some time, though not developed enough to make people believe ***** the reform can be achieved. ***** thus plays off an already existing concern about high costs, poor insur*****ce coverage, discrimination on the b*****is of economic status, and medical decisions *****ing made not by *****c*****rs but by insurers more interested in saving money than in good health care. The film is shaped around ***** ********** ***** the filmmaker and around anecdotal evidence from people who hade been m*****treated ***** the system, or at least who believe they ***** been. There are a number of reasons to accept what is said in the film, and some ***** ***** to ***** all that is said in the *****.

***** many of ***** people interviewed, there is evidence ***** they ***** telling the truth and that ***** have ***** mistreated, usually by being denied procedures not for ***** reasons but because an insur*****ce company bureaucrat makes a ruling that is apparently based only on ***** and ***** on sound medical advice. The way money ***** a role is m*****de most apparent in the story of the man ***** had to decide which f*****ger ***** ***** reattached ***** on cost. Medical science has made great advances, ***** too often whether those advances are used at all is not based only on the ***** but ***** ability to pay. Insurance has long been offered as the way ***** assure that when a crisis occurs and a procedure is needed, ***** will be ***** way to pay for it. What ***** seen too often is ***** ***** insurance ***** wants to lim***** payments for ***** who need them. The supposed ideal is that all ***** pay in***** a pool by buying insurance, and those in need take from ***** ***** when they need to do so. ***** pool rema*****s viable because ***** people ***** not need to ***** advantage of it, while they are paying ***** be able to take ***** of ***** when ***** need to do so. ***** companies have *****come huge corporations with s*****ckholders who have to be served. Insurance companies pretend that they exist only to serve their customers, but in fact they more and more serve their stockholders and ***** their *****. Other stories of denial of service ***** much the same aura in this film.

At the ***** time, there is some reason to question these anecdotal tales not *****cause they may ***** be true but because there is no certainty that ***** are really representative or that they may be ***** specific cases that might ***** belied by a m*****e in-depth examination of the system as a whole.