Sicko Thoughts

As one-sided as Michael Moore presents pretty much anything in his documentaries, I must say that I still did learn a lot from Sicko. I might have even momentarily contemplated a move to Britain seeing how persuasively he illustrated their seemingly easier and better lifestyles. And, although it was clearly a biased portrayal of our health care system, I believe it was very effective in putting the flaws of our health care system in the public eye. I thought it was a very good move on his part to use patient horror stories to portray the worst aspects of the system we are living with today because it put faces on those worst case scenarios that we typically only hear about from "my one friend's aunt's mother's cousin's brother." One of the things that I also found interesting was how they mentioned how one of the differences between the British and American governments is the fact that the British government is scared of their general public, while our American public is scared of our government. This clearly translates in the way the health care systems differ in these two countries and could possibly give the American public a little more incentive to take action in attempting to help reform our health care system. I also liked learning about the different places that already use a single payer system because it's still something that I'm slowly learning about and becoming more familiar with. It was very interesting to see how different it is from our current system because I've never experienced any other health care system other than ours here in the US.