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What do you think is your personal stake in changing the way our healthcare system works? 

All healthcare needs to be covered for every person in the country. It doesn’t make sense to me for a healthcare worker, who is obligated to do their best for patients, turn someone away because they cannot afford the price of a preventative or life saving treatment. In my opinion, it’s like hiding your face and telling someone to figure something else out or even die because you work for a corporation and have to put the company’s money above a person’s life.

1. 2. Thinking of the experiences portrayed in the film, what are the major problems in the United States’ healthcare system?  Why hasn’t it been “fixed”?

Health insurance companies like to find any way possible to get out of doing what they promised. They accumulate money from members, promising to cover them, and then when it comes time for them to deliver they dig through medical records to find any reason they can to drop their clients. This hasn’t been fixed because these companies have such a strong hold in congress and pay many politicians off to prevent this from being fixed.

3. Which country shown in this film do you believe gives its citizens the best care? Why? 

Paris seemed to have more ways of providing healthcare to people and was completely free. They had healthcare workers driving over to provide care and exams for people in their own homes.

4. Do you believe Michael Moore’s visit to different countries provides an accurate analysis of each country’s health care system? Explain why or why not.

Because he interviewed a small number of people in each country I do not think it is enough to say his findings are accurate of the health care systems as a whole in those countries. I think there needs to be a larger sample size interviewed to truly find accurate results

5. What are the consequences for not having health insurance? Why is health insurance often insufficient in managing expenses? What is your opinion of health insurance?

The consequences of no health insurance is that you cannot go to the hospital or see a doctor for any symptom or injury. There is no incentive to get preventative treatment, and people will not seek medical attention until they have no choice due to severe pain. This may result in conditions developing beyond reversible stages and cost more in the long run. Health insurance is often insufficient because they will find any reason to get out of paying for treatment. They exclude many diseases from being covered and thus do not help their clients. Health insurance in America makes it so that patients are valued differently in the eyes of healthcare workers that need to make a living. It is an unethical system here in America. If the lives of Americans actually matter, then health insurance should be universal and cover everything.