Precis:
America's health care system is way more negative than positive. Profit is the primary incentive of the companies and this definitely makes the system corrupt. Insurers make a conscience effort to not reimburse people, using the excuses of preexisting conditions or simply being unable to fit their standards. Those in America who don't have health insurance which is a lot of the people in America usually don't end up ever getting it. The United States of America definitely needs to change its health care ways, they should follow in the footsteps of countries who have a good system such as The French Republic, Canada, and England. These countries have a system called social health care which provides either very low priced health care or free health care to the citizens. The main goal is to not deny health care to anyone.This sounds good and it is America isn't that far off from socialism since one of the main things in America is socialist the education system.
Evidence:
A1: The United States can "fix" its current health care system by adopting a socialized healthcare system that will provide either free health care or low priced health care, which would increase the life expectancy to that of other countries or better.
A2: One specific recording between President Nixon and his chief advisor stated that all the incentives of the healthcare system are towards profit and less medical care. Nixon thought this was a good idea, and now the healthcare system is set up so that people pay the companies for insurance and the companies deny you insurance and keep your money. The system basically benefits the rich and negatively affects the poor and middle class.
B1: In the French Republic, Canada, and England health care is free basically because they have socialized medicine. Thus, statistically speaking people in these countries live 2-4 years more than us. That may seem like a little bit but it's your life and your time to be spent on Earth, you might as well stay here as long as possible.
B2: This basically shows that the health care system is set up so that the citizens who pay for insurance or who don't end up not receiving that care because, that would be seen as a lost of profit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aZnlElJZpA
D: In the video listed above Nixon basically states that the doctors would be working for the benefit of the patients oppose to the benefit of the government under his new plan.This is puzzling to me how are the doctors expected to work for the patients if they basically aren't able to treat them due to restrictions that the health insurance companies placed. Americans seem to have some incredible fear of the word government. Doctors working for the government isn't as bad as it seems, and by looking at other countries it seems to be working pretty well.
Response:
This movie made me think a lot more than I planned to. I was surprisingly confident that the movie would positively affect me and provide lots of knowledge about the topic of healthcare which I knew very little about. I did began to question the movie especially when Michael Moore would contradict statements he made, which I'm sure was done unintentionally. I thought the evidence in general, and the amount of evidence done was excellent. Throughout my life time I have always heard that America was such a bad place and that many of the systems were crooked and corrupt, but I never really could name more than three. You would think that systems like this were originally created with positive intentions, and over time they just slowly died down. However, that's not the case all of the time as the healthcare system was basically made to do the opposite of what it's supposed to do, provide healthcare.I certainly take healthcare for granted, I am one of the lucky ones who has a responsible, hard working, and reliable health care provider. This is mostly because I don't personally have to pay for it and its just taken care of. The most important experts from the movie was that even though we pay lots of money for health care insurance, and we end up getting treated terribly compared to people who have free health care in other countries. If anything it should be the opposite the people who are paying the most and paying at all should be receiving top class health care while the people who pay nothing or less should receive health care just not as good of health care.This is how I think and want the health care system to turn into. The most crucial ideas from this movie is I might end up moving to France, England, or Canada, preferably somewhere where they speak English still. The other idea is that if I was put into the same shoes as these countries I am almost 90% certain that I would do the same if not to a worse extent. If I end up making more than $100,000 alone or around there I will probably become a Republican because it sounds as if they benefit a lot more from things. If your rich America is a nice place to live in.
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