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Karlee Torres Sociology Professor Tapia 4 November 2016 Sicko Michael Moore’s documentary, “Sicko” revealed the truth about American Health-Care. After watching this film and hearing individual’s stories, I realized the what goes on behind Health-Care versus the rest of the world. Nearly 50 million Americans have no health insurance, while 250 million do. Americans are being declined Health-Care because they are too skinny and tall, or to short and too fat. People are being denied an opportunity to live healthy in America. Health-Care in America is nothing like it is in Britain. An individual in America told her story how her insurance charged her for the ambulance ride to the hospital after her car accident where she was unconscious. They made her pay because the ambulance ride was not preapproved. Another story, which became a federal case in 2003, Maria vs Blue Cross Blue Shied. Maria was denied her referral to get an MRI on her brain. When traveling in Japan with her children she became severely ill and had an MRI, discovering she had a brain tumor. In America, the more individuals who are denied, the more bonuses employees for Health-Care receive. A Payment is known as a medical loss and not a saving for the company. However, in Britain, hospital stays are free. You can have a child, a broken ankle in the ER, and everything is free. There is a cashier at the hospital, where travel expenses are paid because no money comes in, money only comes out. When Michael Moore talks to British doctors, he asks questions: “Have you ever denied someone because they could not pay bills?” the answer was no. While in California, hospitals provide a taxi to take individuals to a shelter if they cannot afford to pay

their hospital cost. A woman was sent in a taxi to a shelter, with broken ribs, stiches that were unhealed and the hospital did not tell her where she was going, but to take care of herself. Truthfully, we live in a sick world. Cuba and Britain provide health services to EVERYONE, poor or wealthy. The problem with America is that wealth is the only desire. When in Cuba, the woman discusses with the doctor how grateful she is to be provided this opportunity, which is free. The doctor tells her she should not cry because everything is going to be okay. In America, no individual has this same mentality. When Rick sawed off his fingers, he was given an ultimatum. He could fix his middle finger for $60,000 or his ring finger for $12,000. Being that he did not have insurance, he could only choose one finger. If this incident was to occur in Cuba or Britain, he would not have had to chose one. The functionalist perspective best describes this film. The film undergoes society as a system of interconnected parts that work together in harmony to maintain a state of balance and social equilibrium for the whole. While millions of people in America are denied health care, thousands are being aided to in Britain and Cuba for no charge. It is time to make change in America....