Documentary: Sicko

Sicko (2007)

My mom called me about 20 minutes into this honest documentary by Michael Moore, and our conversation ended with both of us slamming the phone down after I blamed the baby boomers for this country's current healthcare situation. After watching the rest of the movie, I felt like calling her back to make an appointment for us to sit down and watch this together. After all, most Moore movies are made for people like my parents: people who piss and moan about where this country is heading, and never taking the any sort of responsibility for sitting on their hands all these years.

In typical Moore fashion, Michael takes us through everything every American needs to know about our current for profit healthcare crisis: how medical directors for US insurance companies make bonuses by denying coverage; how every other Western democratic country has universal healthcare; that Doctors in these countries still make a good living, as well as the citizens who are supposedly "overtaxed" for these services.

I just quit my job a couple of weeks ago, and it will cost me $200 a month just for HMO Medical and Dental through Cobra. This doesn't include copays or deductibles. Take a look at your insurance coverage: Do you have 80/20 coverage? Well that means that you are responsible for 20% of your bills. Just as an example: A guy I graduated from HS with broke his neck a few years ago. The surgery was billed at 2.5 MILLION dollars. This means that you'd be responsible for $500K! What the FUCK?!?!?!?!??!

This shit is getting old, and I really hope that ALL Americans wake up VERY SOON, because the corporatization of our country is raping the middle class.

you gotta see this shit, and you have to watch it with someone else that needs to see it!