A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
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When will Michael Moore stop making me cry my eyes out and feel hopeless for the future of America?
Sicko came out in a particularly upsetting time in my life. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2005. Two years later, my health was so unreliable that it was a major reason my family chose to close the doors on the business we'd owned and operated for twenty years. No single topic has dominated my daily life these last eight years more than the vulnerability of the sick and injured in America. Not even Batman.
Michael Moore is still prone to theatrics - witness his stunt trip in the finale to Cuba - but there's a decidedly lighter touch here than in Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11. There's a lot less mockery, less spiking the football. Moore's focus…
oh, you blessed europe you! at the time it became en vogue to bash Michael Moore he came along with his topically „smaller“ piece about the fragile and injustice health care system in the US. more sarcastically than before, you could argue even more productive (giving concrete ideas of self-help).
instead of going at Moore for his manipulative ways, the one-sided argumentation or occasional hiding of facts the most annyoing thing about his narrative strategy might be his acted naivety. the laudable and honourable approach he might have is always thwarted by the cheap political polemics for which he’s sacrificing the actual cause.
in Moores eyes the paradise is to be found in europe or canada. a visit at an…
When my daughter was born in 2007, the pregnancy and process of child birth didn't exactly go swimmingly. After 14 hours of labor, little to no progress was made and the doctor informed us of the damage that was being done to the top of our soon to be born little girl's head. Trying to get out but no where to go.
So, obviously, to protect her from further damage, my wife had a C-section done and there she was, that beautiful bundle of joy. All was right in the world.
When we got the bill for the entire experience, the total amount was astronomical but what we owed was not. Huzzah for health insurance and the good ol' U.S.…
Deny, Defend, Depose
(EDIT: Title has recently made free to view on Michael Moore's YouTube channel: youtu.be/YbEQ7acb0IE?si=vYz3g_UTWWgnbzQ- )
It seemed an appropriate time as any to finally get around to viewing this critique by Michael Moore of America’s healthcare system, “Sicko,” what with the recent, as of this writing, and much-publicized assassination of a health insurance CEO and the manhunt and arrest of the suspected murderer. Frankly, I’m not very interested in that case specifically, but the internet and public reaction to it has been fascinating. Maybe more Americans than I realized are desirous of joining every other rich nation in the world in adopting socialized medicine or some sort of single-payer universal healthcare system, “Medicare for All,” or what…
'Sicko', a perfectly built case.
Recently my mother has been on a harmful anti-covid vaccine streak using her best friend's neighbours uncle's bad reaction to the Pfizer vaccine as evidence to support her case; she uses personal anecdotes and blatantly untrue "studies" as evidence/the truth and as reason to take an public anti-vax stance. I mention this because I'm not one to believe anecdotes like the ones we've all heard so much, yet so little of, of recent from anyone. But Noah, so much of Michael Moore's supposed "evidence" is showing average people's personal experiences, personal anecdotes. Why then do I believe Moore built an objectively faultless case here?
He presents hundreds of these stories! From all walks of life…
