Michael Moores Sicko Review A Documentary Of The Sickening Health Care System In America!
There couldnt be a better word to describe Michael Moores latest film Sicko. Traveling through the health care world in the United States brings on a new era of realization of how Sickening the health insurance industry of America really is.
Almost 50 Million Americans live without health insurance in America. As bad as that is, some insurance companies make it extremely difficult to get any insurance claims at all for the rest of the 250 million Americans that do have health insurance coverage.
Sicko, documents a case where a man had accidentally sawed off two of his fingers, the index finger and the middle finger. When the man was taken to the hospital, he was given a choice sew back the index finger for $12,000 or sew back the middle finger for $60, 000 his choice was to keep his index finger, and keep a place for his sacred wedding ring.
This is not an uncommon story in the American health insurance industry, as Sicko depicts that health insurance companies will do whatever it takes to deny a recipient benefit claims.
Another example from Sicko is...