Rhetorical Analysis In Sicko

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The film Sicko (2007), is about the misfortune and distress associated with the American Health care system and how it compares to those in several foreign countries where universal health care is the normal. The audience explores Moore’s rhetorical strategies and how he represents the issue of health care with the goal of gaining support from the rest of society for his cause. Michael Moore make this film that has the purpose to especially inform the American audience about the current health system in America and terrible system created in America that is sometimes deadly. The filmmaker used emotion, reason, creditable people, counter arguments and humor/irony to develop his argument that the American health system is terrible to citizens. Old people are shown in the film being kicked out of hospitals because the hospitals know they can pay them, this shows the sick old people being helpless. A little girl dies in a story shown to the audience by Moore to show how bad the system is, the little girl get sick and her health insurance company tells her mother that she couldn’t go to the closest hospital because it wasn 't covered by Kaiser and instead was forced by Kaiser insurance to go across town to a approve Kaiser hospital, this is big emotional low in the film for the audience’s emotional, it makes the audience have empathy for the dead child. The little girl dying makes parallel comparison With the timing of when Moore was in France and England and Moore is shown that any person could get free healthcare, the film want the audience to see and feel that the little girl 's life could have been saved if healthcare was free, and this highlights that the government choose not to and but this choose causing any

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