Turned out the movie was showing semi-nearby.
Saw it yesterday, and I am still so saddened by it. Heartbroken really, that our contry has become what it has.
Everyone should see it – regardless of party affiliation. Don’t be afraid to face the ideas you hold dearly. If your ideas are solid, then you’ll leave feeling the same as when you went in the theater. Or you may see things suddenly from a different perspective… who knows. There is always room to grow and change with new information. Please see it. It is about the most basic of needs a country should provide for it’s citizens – healthcare – so the people can work.
My kids have had some health issues themselves, and at the same time that my husband’s job (Delta Airlines) was deeply cutting pilot pay, they were also continually changing the health benefits and insurance companies. New cards every year from a new company… We were increasingly drowning in co-pays, medicine costs, but what is one to do when your child has pneumonia, a broken arm, a head injury? The insurance company tried their damndest to find a way to not pay that broken arm bill. Where exactly did it happen, could it have been prevented, was in on the property of someone they could go after instead? The questions we had to answer, and then answer again!!! The financial relief when he dumped that Delta job and went to a small company was tremendous just in healthcare alone.
The stories of people who worked hard their whole lives, only to be buried by healthcare debt are compelling in this movie… Good hard-working people, not the bottom-dwellers of society.
A note for jg… if you see it, which I please please please hope you do, look closely at which people have bad teeth… It is all the Americans that have the nasty teeth and fat asses! It is the Americans who are waiting at the hospitals for hours. it is the Americans who are angry and frustrated, stressed to the max. It is the Americans who are in despair over their lack of medical care.
MM interviews conservatives from other countries who while fiscally conservative, absolutely believe that healthcare is independent of the market economy … it is essential.
We now have excellent coverage. can go anywhere we like without referrals, etc. STILL, I am endlessly having to call up the insurance company because they are all f’d up. They all are… the errors in billing are a constant. They must be corrected to protect our credit, and it is many times a year that i end up on the phone setting things straight.
See it, so we can have an intelligent discussion here. Just saying “I wont see it because MM is fat” is a pathetic excuse for an apathetic citizen. I personally love America, and I want better for all of us, not just for ME.
