Sicko Reflection

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Sicko
While I was watching this movie it opened my eyes about the way that our country runs its health care system. Watching and listening to all the stories of people getting denied for care when it comes to life threatening situations was utterly shocking and jaw dropping. It’s also disturbing that a 79 year old man like Frank Cardeal has to work till he dies just to have health care. What really blew my mind was looking at the way the United States health care system is compared to other countries like Canada, France and even Cuba. Like the director, Michael Moore, I wondered why the United States isn’t running the health care system like other countries are. Another thing that disturbed me was how drug and insurance companies put the members …show more content…

When it comes to Canada’s health care, the health care is provided to the citizens but it does take a long period of time to get seen and the surgeons can only do so many surgeries a year. For France, the citizens get health care no matter a persons income. The citizens pay according to means and receive according to needs. Finally when it comes to Cuba’s health care they get free universal health care. The average amount spend per person on health care is $251 compared to the $7,000 in the United States. Cuba believes in preventative medicine and the medicine is extremely …show more content…

One of those reasons is that the drug care and insurance industries control a large portion of the members of Congress. The insurance companies accept and deny whoever that they want and the drug care industry makes their own price for their medicine. A way that we could remedy our current health care dilemma is we could not give so much power to the health care industry.
I believe that we can fix the health care problems in the United States in a couple ways. One way would be to limit the power of the health care industry and give everyone the best care possible no matter what a person’s income or health issues may be. We can set a limit on how much preventative drugs would cost. For example in Great Britain, no matter what medicine is given to an individual every drug is $10.00. This would save citizens in this country hundreds and thousands of dollars a year.
In my own opinion, I believe that Great Britain has a good way of doing their health care. They make the doctors government employees and the doctors get paid for how much work they do a year. For example, if a doctor in generalized medicine helps 10-15 people a year quit smoking then that doctor will get paid more. If we can do that here in the United States it could make us a happier and healthier

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