Sicko [Movie] – watch it!

Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko” was featured on CBC Newsworld’s “The Passionate Eye” tonight.  So here is my movie review.  Actually it’s only a partial movie review… I only saw the last half-ish or so.  And not really a review — more of a recommendation to watch it if you haven’t yet.  And technically it’s a documentary and not a movie.  So far this blog post is going really well.  LOL

But Michael Moore’s look at the American health care system (comparing it to other countries throughout the world including Canada, the UK, France, and even Cuba) is truly eye opening.  It makes me glad to be in Canada.  It makes me vaguely interested in moving to France.  (If you watch it, you’ll understand why!)  But also makes me question why the Canadian (Ontario, even) way of doing healthcare is… so… incomplete.

I’m grateful for good insurance through my employer… I do recall days where I didn’t have any.  And I’m grateful for essential coverage through the provincial government… again, especially for times when I didn’t have anything else to fall back on.  But why is everything about money?  Healthcare should be an example of something that is solely about quality.  I know that, at present, I’m not informed enough to contrast and compare with specifics and hard, cold facts.  But I’ve had just enough firsthand experience over the years to know that the healthcare workers don’t get what they deserve or need (at least not the good ones!) and often enough neither do the patients.

Anyway – watch the film.  Think for yourself.  Ask questions.  Covet change and work toward that change.