Question

How do you make sense of the disparity between ordinary people’s lives in this country and in the countries featured in SiCKO?

Answer 1

Sicko is a documentary film by Michael Moore, about the healthcare system prevailing in the US and compares the non-universal and for-profit US system with publicly funded health care systems of Canada, the UK, France, and Cuba.

The documentary presents the health care system in America as being broken and inefficient by using real incidents to illustrate the plight of the 50 million Americans with literally no health insurance and also to address the concerns about the kind of care that the insured people receive.

I think although it is a nice medium to show the shortcomings of the healthcare system in the United States, it rather presents a biased view by ignoring the difficulties faced by people in the other countries presented in the movie.

It only presents one sided view of the publicly funded healthcare system. It doesn't show interminable wait times, overcrowded ERs, poor standards of quality and difficulties in these publicly funded healthcare system.

Even after all these biases, the documentary does a wonderful job in bringing forward the issues faced by our healthcare system and lawmakers of this country should try and see what good things can be imbibed from healthcare systems prevailing across other countries.