This film is complete propaganda like all other films by Moore. It's highly sensationalistic and full of many inconsistencies and glossing over of realities.
His visit to Cuba, for example was highly irregular and there are websites out there that show what the true average Cuban hospitals look like and it can be grim.
That said, the film is based on earnest grains of truth and it is a powerful film indeed. For a population who needs something dumbed down and dramatized like Moore presents it, it is the proper tool to really make people stop and think about how things are being run because there is an essential problem there and I shudder to think what it would be like to exist in the U.S. Health Care system and how people fundamentally treat each other.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Thing is...how the heck does the US afford universal health care? IIRC, they already pay more person, or is it per capita than Canada?
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The U.S. system wastes billions and billions in the accounting, bureaucracy, legal, and infrastructure of maintaining their private system with HMOs and all the red tape. Trim that off, stop making doctors and nurses thinking about being their own bill collectors, feeding lawyers, paying millions of insurance investigators, cutting out trillions of forms, paying astronomical salaries to private companies and medical company CEOs...and you'd probably have a maintainable system after several years.
The main problem is that the U.S. system is so broken and the lack of proper medical treatment is so historically engrained that there has been no preventative treatment and there are many, many, many more chronically sick people who were just never able to get help...and it would flood and crush a universal system if they tried to implement it from the start.
I look at my grandparents who have gotten free preventative medical treatment for decades up here in Canada and I shudder to think what it woudl be like if they could never afford that over all these years and their problems just piled up and got much worse over time. The worse the condition, the more geometric the rate of costs to provide proper treatment.