"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.