Sicko

I don't necessarily love Sicko because I find Michael Moore kind of annoying, but that is beside the point.  I think Sicko does a really good job informing people about how well socialized medicine works in other parts of the world and how truly messed up our health care system is in America.

The thing I took from it was not as much about health care and things like that, but more about how American media has been able to control the entire American population and their thoughts about socialized medicine.  I thought it was very telling to see the media examples mentioned throughout the movie.  For decades, the American government has essentially been publishing propaganda working against many of the things that work in other countries.  I think this can even be related to Fox News and the Outfoxed film we just watched.  Fox News is one of the media members that publishes the untrue stories about medicine practices in other countries. 

I thought it was funny that Sicko was able to find media examples in which American media outlets presented foreign medicine.  Foreign medicine was characterized by questionable service, long wait times, and terrible medical staff members, but obviously once Moore went to Canada and other countries with universal healthcare we see that none of this is true.  Once again, like I said in my last post, it is truly sickening to me that as a country, we are so uninformed that it takes a movie like Sicko to inform us of these truths.