Hw 25 Response to Sicko

Precis: Health care in the United States is no were close to helpful, other countries such as Canada, France, and Britain have health care and it actually has wonderful benefits and patients get helped with little to no fees and they don't wait hours for help like us Americans do. While seeking for help within the health care "community" there are many rules and laws set so the chance of people getting help for free is slim to none. If America decided to work together our health care could be improved tremendously and we could all benefit from those changes.

Evidence 1:

What caught my eye was when the movie was getting into detail about Hillary Clinton and how she was fighting for better health care. This caught my attention because the more she fought for it the less attention she got and she was told to stop bringing it up. This only made me believe that the people (government) working for health care are just in it for themselves and not for the actual patients. To this day health care has not changed and us Americans are still assed out.

Evidence 2:

People in other countries have better health to the point that the poorest people in other countries are healthier then some of the richest people in America. That is a big argument which has been proven and this should have American health care workers. the government on there toes. Doctors in Britain are also paid more when patients illnesses improve, why can't America work a plan like this so the government is eager to make health care cheaper?

These two pieces of evidence are relevant because they both show/prove that other countries have better health care which improves the life's of most residents/ patients.

Thoughts and ideas:

After watching Sicko I was shocked by how differently patients in other countries were treated, I was actually quite jealous. A week before I saw the movie my mother complained to me how her health insurance had gone up and how she still had to pay at least 200 dollars for medicine every month. If we moved to Canada she wouldn't have to worry about spending so much on something that everyone should get free.

If doctors are prescribing these medicines to certain people, its obviously because they need them not because they want them, so in my mind patients should not have to pay for medication, because in the long run those medications ad up to a big amount.(money wise)