Thursday, June 21, 2007

Sicko

Watched Michael Moore's new movie Sicko about the broken American healthcare system. I can't agree more with this. Gloria visited the hospital and did a couple checkups in December, and we keep getting bills that summed up to a couple hundreds afterwards. We are supposed to be the "well insured" already. A similar treatment in Beijing last year is only one hundred RMB in Beijing, paid in full without insurance. In US every month the company pays almost $1000 for the health insurance for me. Just where does all the money go?

However, I do believe there are some false fact in the movie. Here is a critic:
http://blogs.nypost.com/movies/archives/2007/06/kyle_smith_on_m.html

One of the main criticism is that the entire part of Cuba is false, possibly a propaganda created by the Cuban government. This is totally possible. But still, I don't oppose MM adding this to his movie. Afterall, when you are in a country where 65% doesn't know where London is, and Bush was successfully re-elected, you need something a bit dramatic to stir up a change in people's mind.

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