Thoughts on film

Personally I like the film because I think there is a lot of truth in it. I understand that although not all is 100% accurate, and perhaps the worst of the worst stories were chosen for the film. Still, I have still heard and seen similar stories in my life. Definitely the film is meant to support a single payer/universal health care system, but what is the problem with that? I think there would be a problem if it were criticizing an existing good system for the promotion of a corrupt new system. On the contrary, it is only pointing out the problems of a failing system and encouraging suggestions (from the comparisons of other countries) for a better and less-selfish system. Every time I see the film, I do think that I would love to be in France and not worry about health care ever. I don’t know how much of the film accurately portrays France, but if true, who wouldn’t want commodities, reduced costs, and free healthcare? What I think could have given more credibility to the greatness of living in France, would be showing the views of a French working class family and not just families in good economic conditions. A working class family perspective would have provided us with a more realistic view of some of the outcomes of having universal health care.