Sicko

This week I am going to take an opportunity to write about a genre in the arts which I have not written about in my blog previously and that is film. This past week for biology extra credit I rented the movie Sicko which was nominate for an Academy Award for best documentary last night. The movie was extremely disturbing!!! I always had an idea that the health care situation in this country was dire for people who do not have money, however, this movie truly brought the problem to life for me. The movie made me physically ill right from its inception when I has to watch someone sewing up their own leg. To hear the prices that some of these people who do no have health care would have to pay truly disturbed me. I come from a very comfortable middle class family and I know that if we did not have health care we would not be able to pay for many of these things seen in the movie so there is no way that people who do not have money could pay for them. It was also disturbing to see that so many people in need were being turned away and made me feel like the people working for the insurance companies in a way were playing G-d. If there is a way to help people live it would make sense for others to want to help. The current state of our healthcare therefore is awful. Healthcare should help anyone and everyone not just those who the insurance companies pick. I also had no idea of what Hillary Clinton was trying to do all those years ago. Although I am not a big fan of hers on many issues she truly has won my vote for healthcare. She knows how many people truly need help and she wants to help them. Maybe her ideas are the solution to our problems but to be honest I sadly do not see healthcare for profit going away anytime soon. I just cannot believe all of those painful stories of unnecessary death and pain because healthcare has turned into a game of profit.