"Sicko"

The movie "Sicko" was basically about Michael Moore's opinion on the United States health care system and his motive to change it by showing Americans how "great" other countries health care systems are. He goes on to talk about how various Americans are unable to afford health insurance because of the high costs or the exceptions to getting insurance due to one's current health. He claims that other countries such as France or Cuba have it easy, because it is free and prescriptions are really cheap. But Michael Moore is missing some very important facts about those other "better" health care countries such as not looking at the aspect of waiting lists and also the truth about the high debts that these countries have acquired.

I think America's health care system is messed up due to the fact of not allowing people to get health care and not covering such things as an ambulance ride, especially if you are unconscious. Michael Moore did point out some good, debatable aspects of the U.S. health care system, but he also left out the positives such as no waiting lists. I think America should change the way our healthcare is set up and allow everyone to be able to buy a plan because this is a free country and we are all citizens that are alike. What we could do is have people that have surgeries and/or multiple doctor visits, or really chronic health, just have those people pay a bigger co-pay. This way, we would all get the same treatment for insurance, instead of having a select amount of people not be able to have it at all. I think this was a good movie in the sense that it got people's attention and made them think about the United States' current health care system.

In the article, "From Ballet to Buddhism" I thought the young filmmaker Chaille Stovall was a very unique and brilliant young child. I was shocked to hear that he wrote his first documentary at the age of 12, because he was in dance for a disability and young boys were probably making fun of him. I was also surprised by reading the part that noted what Chaille found out throughout the dance documentary and the other documentaries he made. I mean he is just a young child and he already thinks/realizes that "film is the best medium to get out a message." He is so young, yet so smart. Overall, I thought it was interesting to read.

The article, 'Sicko':Heavily Doctored by Kurt Loden mainly depicts the faults of the Michael Moore movie. The article states that Moore does a real service in bringing these stories to light--some of them are horrifying, and then infuriating. I believe this is very true from the story about the 79 year old guy that is still working in order to pay for his prescriptions to the guy that sliced part of his fingers off and had to either pay $12,000 for one finger or $60,000 for the other. This article just brought the attention even more about the actual number of people in America that are uninsured. It talks about Hillary Clinton and her reform for the health care system which ended up getting shot down. Personally, I believe it was a good choice in not changing our health care in the way that Hillary wanted it, because we would have turned out to be just like the other countries that have enormous waiting lists and debt. Moore simply tried making the other countries look better, but they have faults in their health care system just like everyone else in the world. Simply put, there isn't an easy solution to make everyone happy. I believe health care will never stop having problems because of technology and how the population is growing.

"Memorable Line"

"Sometimes you gotta break the rules to make things straight."

This simple phrase means a lot to the characters in the movie such as Homer and Dr. Larch. First of all, Dr. Larch ends up breaking the rules or as he thinks "bending" the rules, so that Homer can work as a doctor at the orphanage house to take over Dr. Larch's position. One thing is that Homer never went to school of any kind. Dr. Larch broke the rule of copying his doctorate licenses and other things to make it look like Homer went to school and was a great canidate for the doctor position. Another example of rules being broken is from the house that the apple workers lived in. It was simple. None of occupants could read, therefore they didn't pay attention to the rules that they had broke. Another thing to add for examples, I believe is when Homer dated Candy, while Candy's boyfriend was over fighting in the war. They together broke the rules of relationships and that is what eventually leads Homer right back to the orphanage to start his career as a doctor.

I think that the saying means that rules are meant to keep society sane, but there are exceptions depending on the circumstances that are involved. If Dr. Larch didn't copy all of his doctoral paper for Homer, then a different doctor could be placed in that orphanage with different beliefs.

Some rules are for the better and they are to keep people at peace. But in the case of this movie, some rules are bad and they shouldn't be followed because they don't help society. So in this case, breaking the rules was a positive factor. I'm not saying that all rules should be broken or that Homer's case was fair, but I do believe that it was for the better of the orphanage. It was a great story to watch and enjoy with Homer growing up in the orphanage to Homer taking over the orphanage as the doctor.