HW 25 - Response To Sicko

Investigating the corrupt healthcare system and the politicians that have allowed it to be this way was an enlightening and scary process.
We supposedly live in a country that is 'free for all' but yet the healthcare, is far from free. In one of the richest, capitalist countries in the world we still see 50 million Americans go without healthcare. In a privatised healthcare system where granting money for operations is seen as a 'loss' and the motto they work by is 'less care is more profit' how can we expect to get the care we deserve? Meanwhile a short step over the border into Canada it's a completely different story. Healthcare is free. Whilst in 'civilised' America you would have to decide which finger to keep after sawing them both off because you couldn't afford to keep them both, in Canada you would still have the priviledge of 5 fingers. Although America may be a leading superpower in the 21st century they operate under what seem quite frankly an outdated system. Step into a different country once again, Britain, and instead of having cigarettes sold in pharmacy, you actually have medicine sold. Although ignorantly we have not learnt that an industrialised system is for the better.

"$100 spent to defeat Hilarys health care plan"
"Like Canadians and Brits, the French live longer than we do."
"The life expectancy in the United States is 77.5 whilst the united Kingdom is 78.5, France 79.6 and Canada 80.2"

On one hand I completeley agree with what Moore is trying to argue, but as usual he does it in his one sided, persuasive, in your face way. Once again he has presented a very one sided argument that will persuade his mindless followers that everything is peachy and rosey when you have free healthcare. Although coming from a country with healthcare I will say that I think the American healthcare system is completley messed up, and quite frankly contradicts everything you stand for, I am not going to lie and say that everything works out when there is free healthcare. Moore convieniently left out that people were left dying on the table, waiting for surgery and the tedious waiting lists. But then I remind myself that Moore is a filmmaker, and at the end of the day, no one wants to see a boring film that agrees with both sides. People want to see action. And Moore wants to see money..