Summary of the Movie “Sicko” and Some of the Unethical Behaviors Observed in the Video
“Sicko” is a documentary movie telling us about the health care system of the USA, its shortcomings and fates of people suffered from it. From the very first seconds of the action the movie captures you and takes to the country of freedom, to the same people from flesh and blood. These are real and sometimes even unimaginable in the modern world stories of people who have faced the problem of medical care, usually emergency without getting help.
According to the plot of the story, many Americans have no medical insurance and those who are insured often become victims of bureaucracy and paperwork of insurance companies. The movie contains a lot of interviews of people who according to their own opinion have had sufficient reasons for getting necessary medical help, though they received refuse. Former employees of some insurance companies explain their behavior in case of refusal in insurance by the fact that the company they work in strives to avoid additional expenditures. The main idea of such companies is to elude providing necessary medical help to the insured people while increasing the profitability of the insurance companies.
The film director comes to know lives of common people, talks to them, finds out more about their level of living and incomes, etc. He also familiarizes us with some laws of the countries and shows how they act in reality. He makes it for the purpose to get Americans a reality check and show that some countries are not less or even more developed in the questions related to the level of life.
People of the USA live “in credit”. The whole system works on that and that is why people often work on several jobs. The film maker shows how doctors, irrespective to the oath of Hippocrates pursue their own ends. Even if they know how to help a person, they hardly would agree to help him/her in case of medical insurance absence. However, even insured people not always get help as the insurers follow their own interests and benefits. One more question is buying indispensable to life medicines for unbelievably high price while there is an opportunity of buying them at lower price but in another country.
The United States is a country of opportunities, on the one hand. At the same time, it is a country in which people make money on everything. Health care system of the USA experiences not the best times. Finally, the author of the movie makes a conclusion that the whole system is created solely to get money from patients. Thus, stories of real people are opposed to the words of dishonest doctors. One would better understand the situation and get clear image of difference, if he/she sees the way how some people are capable to make everything for the sake of the suffering people.
Works Cited
Moore, Michael. 2015. Sicko. Web. 25 June 2015 . <http://documentarystorm.com/sicko/>
