Healthcare in the US
In his documentary, Sicko, Micheal Moore, shows us the shabby state of US healthcare. The documentary informs us that almost fifty million Americans are uninsured and those who are covered are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. It is indeed a very comprehensive documentary that reveals the machinations that the insurance companies resort to, to avoid meeting the cost of medically necessary treatments for policy holders, and thus increase company profitability. Moore goes a step further in showing how healthcare in some other countries, France, UK, Canada and even Cuba, is far better than US. He takes a group of people (who worked as volunteers for rescue work of the victims of 9/11) to Cuba to provide them healthcare as ironically and unfortunately they were denied government funds to meet their medical treatments.
Right now, Obama is being called a “Socialist” for trying to ensure healthcare for all. And this propaganda against him is being carried out by the Republicans and a segment of the conservative crowd. One piece of advice to them: They must watch Michael Moore's documentary to see, what I believe they already know, the dilapidated state that is America's healthcare.
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