Healthcare is a basic human need, and Michael Moore tries to give us a different point of view on the American healthcare system in his documentary Sicko, which had his premiere 2007.Normally you would never think that there is a different healthcare system than our system. We have an insurance which gives us a basic healthcare without paying for it.
In the USA there is a different healthcare system. It is based on large insurance companies, who decide if you get healthcare or not. Furthermore these companies decide if you get insurance or for what you get it.
Michael Moore starts his documentary with some examples of the disastrous American system. He shows us examples that people have to pay enormous bills for minimal healthcare.
After he had showed some examples how bad the American system is and how it works, he goes to the neighbour country of the USA, Canada.
It is so strange for him how the system is only few meters away from some boarders. People get healthcare without calling the insurance, people get it immediately and the most important fact, they get it for FREE, the state is paying everything.
Michael Moore is a bit confused about what is happening outside his country. He meets there some of his relatives and they show him that the always buy some extra insurance when they leave the country, even if it is only for one day, because they know the American system and think that there is no trust in it.
As a conclusion of the documentary you can see that Michael Moore is against the American healthcare system in the USA, because he knows that there are better systems.
He tries with Sicko to open the eyes of the US government, so that they change the whole system and everybody gets a basic healthcare for free.
In my opinion it is very important, that everybody in the whole world gets some basic healthcare from the state, especially the poor people. And I think it is not normal that in one of the strongest countries in the world the people have to pay enormous sums for there healthcare.
I think the USA should change their whole system about healthcare. They should make bills against the selection method of the insurance companies, or even better they should ban the companies and start with companies which are owned by the state, so that the state can control them and the whole system.
As an example the USA government should take the European systems, because they give basic a free healthcare for everybody. Furthermore these systems are controlled by the state, so that they can not change the contributions and rules for giving insurance as they do it in the USA. In addition the people would feel much more comfortable and would more often go to the doctor, when they do not have to call the insurance company before that.
The change in the system would also have an influence of the life expectancy of all people. As in the film said the Canadian people have a three year longer life expectancy than the Americans, because of their free healthcare system.
So all in all it can be said that the American system needs a refurbishment which would help everybody. And for that they should take the European or Canadian systems as an example.
But with the election of president Obama there should be a reform of the healthcare system, at least it is planed. What it will bring we will see, but Obama says: YES WE CAN, so maybe they can or the can not, we will see what the future brings.
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