Michael Moore's Use Of Ethos

Americans aren't benefiting from United States Health Care? Michael Moore is the director of the film “SICKO”, where he talks about how the United States should adopt universal health care. Moore chooses to gets his point across by using pathos to get people to pay attention to what he's saying . He lastly uses ethos by providing examples of how people didn't like working for the U.S health care system because it was unethical. He uses logos to gives us facts about the U.S. health care system so we know its legit . He also compares and contrast Americas health care system to other more socialized health care systems that are dog much better than us. Pathos was Moore’s most used way of getting peoples attention about the U.S health care system. Within the first couple scenes of the film Moore had shown a man sewing his own knee, a man who had to decide which finger he wanted to pay for to get fixed, and a 79 year old man still working to pay for his prescriptions all because the insurance wouldn't cover it or they didn't have it all all. This gives the viewer am insight to those who are affected by the Healy care system. We start to

“Fifty million Americans do not have health insurance”(SICKO). This is one of the first things stated in the movie. Right from the start Moore gives us this statistic that shows that there must be something wrong with America’s health care. The use of statistics by Michael Moore is very good because the movie is not just a bunch of stats, but just a few stats that prove the point. Another statistic that I thought was very good was “health care programs spent over 100 million dollars to beat Hilary and her view of socialized health care”(SICKO). This is a very good quote because it shows that health companies will do anything to keep their ways (taking money from the people). Moore’s use of statistics provides the logos of the