US Health Care System Is “Sicko”
Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Sicko,” is an expose of the maliciously inefficient US health care system that leaves more than 50 million Americans uninsured and millions of others without access to, or unable to pay for, necessary operations and medications.
Asked whether he was prepared for the inevitable backlash from the deep-pocketed US medical insurance companies, Moore admitted “they may be a scarier force than Karl Rove or George Bush” but added: “It is my profound hope that people will listen to this film.”
Moore has landed in trouble with the Bush administration for taking a group of ill 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba during the making of “Sicko in order to receive medical treatment. A government investigation has been launched in order to examine whether or not the filmmaker broke US laws prohibiting commerce with the communist nation.
Say what you will about Michael Moore–FOX NEWS has already endorsed his prosecution–but nobody can debate the fact that the American health care system is a sham. The wealthy can afford care, and the destitute have it given to them by the government. But the middle class is screwed by the insurance companies, whose motives are to charge more for less in order to satisfy their shareholders.
The profit motive must be removed from the US health care system.
