To “Sicko” or Not to “Sicko”: That is the question!!

[Joanne98]

http://www.healinghealth.com/blog/archives/106
To “Sicko” or Not to “Sicko”: That is the question!!

If you have not seen “Sicko,” the new Michael Moore movie, then you will most likely harbor a prediction of its value from your opinion of his previous films. I invite you to set aside any opinion and just look at the topic from the standpoint of your own experience as a patient, your skills as a professionals, and the maize of events that must occur for patients and the healthcare community to meet each other. I was moved by the movie and, if only to consider the issues presented, it is worth many discussions both at work and at home. My suggestion that you might take a chance on seeing it, spending both money and time, is based on how urgent the issues are and how marginalized patients have become in the discussion. As far as I know and other than current sexy hospital series, not since the movie “The Doctor” confronted medicine, has another movie taken on the inside of healthcare.

Feudalism has returned to civilization through the portal of employer based health insurance. Employees are indentured to employers for their insurance; then, the next layer, employers are burdened and obligated to the insurance companies to provide coverage; insurance companies are put in the position of seducing companies into contracts that they are hoping not to have to act on. In fact, they are selling a product that they do not want utilized. The ultimate conflict of interest.

You and I don’t have to debate the broken system. If you did not agree, you would not be reading this. However, the solution will only come forth through the door of values and priorities. Once we as a culture, nation, and community decide that we are all damaged by the current system, that the health of the community holds our own security within in, then solutions will evolve. Money? There is enough in the system if just taken the CEO bonuses, the redundancy between companies, and the added costs to providers for the paper work. That alone would cover most of the uninsured.

Medicare is the most successful universal healthcare system developed in the US. Why we don’t expand this, add the taxes, reduce the costs, and eliminate the slavery caused by the current system?

Michael Moore took on the healthcare system from the point of the insured, the working, the good Americans who contribute to their communities and take care of their kids.

Try it out. THe let me know your thoughts on why Medicare cannot work for all of us…
http://www.healinghealth.com/blog/archives/106

[marylanddem]

1. Excellent points, Joanne98 - and an awesome film

I don't want to give anything away but he has some truly, truly mind-blowing stuff in there. Highly watchable, compelling, from start to finish. He is so damned gifted & really makes you want to take action - that's why the ruling class hates him so much.

[sandnsea]

2. Part B premiums, supplemental insurance

and medicaid still covering most long term care. Has anybody who has suggested Medicare for All addressed those 3 items, not to mention whatever premiums exist for the prescription drug program.