What We Don't Have

The last couple blogs have been written about what we have here in America. So I tried thinking about what we don't have in America that other countries do have, and that is a good health care system. In one of my other classes this semester we had to watch a movie called Sicko by Michael Moore. For those of you who haven't seen it, it is a documentary film that investigates our current health care system in America. On focuses on things such as how health insurance companies can deny a person of coverage just so they can recieve a raise, along with how the pharmaceutical industry's in America can charge so much, while other countries don't have to pay a cent. The film compares the for-profit and non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of other coutries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Cuba, and France. The entire time I watched it I was shocked by some of Moore's findings, even though the documentary generated a lot of criticism and controversy, I couldn't help but feel for some of the people in the documentary who expressed their feelings about how they lost their loved one's by the way our current health care system is set up.

Here is a clip I found from the documentary Sicko. This lady confesses that because she denied a man from receiving health care, at the expense of her getting a raise, the man died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGLdYBm1bY