Sicko is about American healthcare and it's policies, and its message is thrown towards Americans with healthcare in order for them to understand what it really means to have health care in the United States. Many Americans believe that having health care means that they're set and they're covered for almost everything or it's easy to get as long as you're a working citizen, but Moore show's that it's not like that at all. There's many loops on having health care, health insurance companies tries to use all their policies and restriction in order to pay for less, and not have to cover their customers in order to save more money for themselves. Michael Moore does a good job transitioning the film to show that not all healthcare is the same, because after watching the movie for about half an hour you get a bit depressed when seeing how the American government allows insurance companies to scam their customers, and he transitions the film and shows that health insurance in countries that the united states is very fond of is very good, even though it could be seen as "socialist". But he showed that doctors in those countries still make good money, and that they get the same, and for the most part better service than here in the United States. In the UK one of the people said that the UK's healthcare and other "socialist" healthcare is not socialist it's "democratic" (a democracy).
Moore explains how our health care system works, the history of it, and the differences between our healthcare system and a few countries, which being is Canada, The UK and France. Watching this movie made me question our countries leaders even more, because judging from the evidence Moore showed it seems as if the American government does not care about the well being of it's citizens. In the end of the movie Moore never gave a specific answer on how our health system can get better, or the lives of the people he interviewed, and the end was a bit cliché, but all in all the film was good, because it opens up the viewers eyes, especially if they have health insurance.
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