Sicko

Running Head : Sicko Michael Moore 's Sicko

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Michael Moore has a reputation for tackling highly polarizing s in his documentaries . Moore generally eschews political punditry , choosing to raise concern over a callous acceptance of broken systems and cultural maladies such as gun violence in a paranoiac media culture or corporate disregard for employee welfare . In 2007 's Sicko , Moore tackles health care

Sicko addresses the United States ' health care system . Moore opines that with its reliance on for-profit insurance companies and HMOs (health

maintenance organizations , the system effectively obstructs Americans from proper access to health care . In effect , Moore 's theme here is that the American health care system is effectively dysfunctional , because in this regard it fails to provide the services it was designed for in the first place . Moore illustrates this point with numerous examples of individuals wronged by the system : a husband who died after being denied an 'experimental ' bone marrow transplant , an eighteen-month old girl who was turned away from the nearest ER because they were not pre-approved by her insurer . Furthermore , he reports on the regretful tales of those who worked within the system , most notably a former Humana medical director who earned a six figure salary to deny claims

For comparison purposes , Moore also draws on the experiences of doctors and patients from France and the United Kingdom . He expresses disbelief at the comprehensive free health care offered by the latter and the astonishingly broad social services provided by...