HW 25

There are 50 million people in America without healthcare. That's not what this is about though. It's about people that DO have health insurance. Even people with healthcare are not getting the the medical care they need. The health insurance companies are corrupt, their aim is not to help the people but maximize profit. The companies will find any way they can to refuse care for a person in need, just so they don't have to spend money on you. Universal healthcare in other countries seems to work in every country that has it, but yet the U.S. government refuses to switch to universal healthcare. They use fear of communism as an excuse to stay away from universal healthcare and other things such as long waiting time for medical attention and doctors just being controlled by the government as excuses. There are many other parts of America that are already socialist but still healthcare hasn't changed even though some have tried.
A piece of evidence that Michael Moore used in the film was showing how Hilary Clinton tried to make the healthcare in the U.S. universal and failed. The government and healthcare companies created propaganda to scare people out of universal healthcare and it was successful. 100 MILLION dollars were spent to defeat Hilary Clinton's health care plan. Then it showed how she was highly criticized and pushed down into doing less significant things. She became the second largest recipient in the senate of health care industry contributions. I checked the facts and this was true. "According to Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan group that tracks campaign finance filings, Clinton has received $781,112 in contributions from the health-care sector during the current election cycle, which makes her the No. 2 recipient of funds from that sector, behind only Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., who received $977,354",(http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/12/news/newsmakers/healthcare_clinton/index.htm). This shows how the government and health care companies are corrupt because they'll do everything they can to keep the health care system the way it is.
Another piece of evidence used in the movie was that people in France (who have universal healthcare) can expect to live longer than people in America. Although there must be a lot of factors to this it can show how universal healthcare actually works and is better. I looked up the evidence and also found it was true. The average life expectancy is long for both males and females in France than they are in America. (Source:https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2102.html).
I liked this movie because although it may have over simplified things it made a lot of things more clear to me. It was another disappointing movie about America though. It didn't surprise me to see the corruption in the government and health care companies. This is because all these big powerful people are going to do all that they can to make as much money as possible. They don't really care about what's better for the people but what will make them more money. I think the part that really got to me the most was how other countries were so much better off. The universal health care seemed to work so well and overall I just felt like the people in the other countries cared about one another and looked out for each other where our country would just let those people that can't afford the expensive health care just die off. It kind of made me want to move to another country...