Sicko

I recently saw Michael Moore's latest movie, Sicko. It was very informative and also very depressing. I am seriously considering at some point in my life moving to either Canada or Europe. I currently do not have health insurance myself because I just got out of school and my current job does not provide me with health insurance. I am feeling the same anxiety that many other Americans feel about getting sick or injured, God protect us.

There is not really much to say on the issue. Our health insurance system is absolutely terrible. It is quite obvious to most Americans that our government and our representatives in government do not care about the people of this country. The insurance companies themselves are private corporations working to make as much money as possible by denying Americans the help they need to live. Doctors are complicit in many regards to this terrible system of greed.

We might like to think the system is broken, but in fact the system works exactly how it is supposed to, exactly as it was designed. The insurance companies make tons of cash, politicians are paid off to ensure that free universal health care never exists, and Americans die from treatable illnesses and injuries because insurance companies find loopholes to deny them service. That is exactly how it is supposed to work because when we are denied service by our health insurance companies they save money. It's a business, plain and simple.

I cannot think of a more pressing domestic issue than health care. Both domestic and foreign, health care is the most pressing issue for Americans of every age group. If you get sick in the most powerful country on earth, you might be denied medical services and end up dying from a treatable illness or injury.

All of that makes me want to jump on a boat to Cuba; it's only 90 some miles away from my home. Viva Fidel.