Sicko- A film that you should watch about your medicare in America

I have been a Michael Moore fan for years. The first time that I learned about him is when they mentioned one of his books that talks about "Stupid White Men". I went to his only appearance at SFSU and now I am going to talk about my afterthoughts after watching his latest documentary in 2007, "Sicko". Sicko is a documentary that talks about one of the real problems that many Americans face today and many politicians who tried their best to avoid today which is the troubled American Medicare system. Well, many of us know that America is one of the greatest country in this world and it has the state of the art medical facilities in this planet. However, not many Americans can afford to use these top of the world medical facilities without the aid of their medical insurance. In this documentary, Moore was talking about the many cases that people got themselves into after they were denied by their Medical Insurance. For example, a retired American baby-boomer couple were forced to move in with their daughter because they were forced to sell their house to fund their own medicare when they were rejected by their medical insurance provider. In addition to pointing out the many individual examples of tragic cases faced by many average American families in the film, Moore actually went to Great Britain, Canada, France and Cuba to check out their various "socialists" medicare system which provides low cost or cost free medicare for their own citizens. There are many things that we should all be aware about this film. On the things that we should be critical about this film is that we don't really get to learn about the many nature about the "great" medicare systems in the countries that Moore used to compare against the US. For example, he was told by a pharmacists in the UK that all drugs in the UK cost 6.65 pounds. We should be aware that these may or may not be true since the drugs that some people need may not be available for that price. In addition, we should also know that this the year before election year, the film seemed to persuade people to support the universal medicare system that is one of the items behind Hillary Clinton's presidential bid campaign. Although these are points that we should all be aware of when we are watching the movie, Moore is really doing a good job on drawing people's attention towards their medicare system. As we all know, the baby boomers are all heading their 60's and medicare is one of the most essential item that they need in their retirement life. Many politicians tried to avoid to talk about social security and the flawed medicare system in America because it is definitely going to cause the loss to many special interests groups who profits from such troubled situations. I believe this film is able to educate people about their potential medicare problems and it is able to make people aware about the many healthcare systems in the world. However, the American people should really stand up and ask the politicians to really solve this flawed system because it will not only affect the current generations but it will also affect the lives of their children.