HW 25 Response to Sicko

In class we have been watching the Michael Moore documentary Sicko which is about the U.S. health care system. It shows how our health care system is just another way for big corporations to get bigger and bigger. Another way for the rich to become richer. The truth is the HMO's are not here to help the citizens in the U.S. In a way there here to steal from us. They do this by having everybody get health care because nobody wants to be in a situation where they need health care and don't have it. So the people pay these companies money so that in the case a person needs medical attention they can have it without worrying about there money. But what the people don't know is that the HMO's try their hardest to turn down every claim they can. So the HMO's make excuses to not give you money and some of them may be the most ridiculous reasons. In one case a girl crashed her car and insurance didn't cover her ambulance ride because she didn't call ahead of time to let the the health insurance company know that she was going to take the ambulance. President Nixon and a man named Edgar Kaiser met to discuss the creation of HMO's. Nixon passed the HMO's and tried to make it seem like an amazing thing. When in reality things got really bad. Years later Hilary Clinton tried to get a bill passed that would change the health care system into socialist healthcare. Now of course right wing politicians would do anything in there power to stop this and they did. All of this has led to the untrustworthy, and basically evil system that we call health care.
Something that I found particularly disturbing is that one of the directors at one of the HMO's who stamps if the claim is denied doesn't even read the claims. When he was asked if he read them he didn't know what to say until he finally said no. I think that shows perfectly that these people really don't care about us. It shows that not helping people is no problem to them as long as they get to keep those people's money. Another good example is some of Hilary Clintons political career. She tried with all of her power to get her health insurance bill to pass and it was widely supported. But the HMO's stepped in and took her down. She went from passing bills to reading to kindergartners. Not only that but she was bought out by the HMO's. She supported them in one of her campaigns. This shows that the HMO's have a dominant power in the U.S. Weather people know it or not they are making politicians their puppets with money.