Problem, Reaction, Solution... It's SiCKO!

Michael Moore has a new film being released called "Sicko" about the corruption present in America's health care system. His focus is on manage care companies and how they profit along with pharmaceutical companies while patients don't get adequate coverage and are often bankrupted or die as a result of the insurance system. Moore is promoting the idea of a universal health care system managed by the government as a way to repair the practice of health care. He even derisively airs clips of Ronald Reagan attacking socialist health care plans and criticizes Hillary Clinton for backing away from the socialist health care issue after being rewarded financially by the health insurance industry.

The situation in America has indeed gotten increasingly worse, but that may merely be pushing Americans more earnestly toward accepting a supposed solution that actually decreases their health care choices and ensures that harmful treatments are given to even more people than before, thus giving even greater profits to pharmaceutical corporations. If health care continues to promote toxic therapies that help foster illness then everyone is being forced to pay for their neighbors to be kept ill. If I know safe natural, inexpensive therapies to heal cancer why should I give tax dollars to have the government fund treatments that poison people? We need health freedom, not a unification of illness maintenance organization. Current coverage pays for toxic drugs but not safe, effective nutritional supplements. Why should intelligent people wish to make that system universal?

Once again, Michael Moore presents some useful information in a context designed to mislead us. Fahrenheit 911 promoted the fiction that Arabs were the perpetrators of 9/11, and SiCKO promotes the fiction that Universal Insurance coverage will lead to improved health and lowered costs. The corporate profiteering in health care he exposes is just one layer of the problem, not the core layer. The core is the allopathic medical monopoly which was created through government collusion with private business interests. If we don't address the core we are deluding ourselves and allowing the people planning power grabs an opportunity to centralize their management of yet another control system, health care. Michael Moore is a talented documentary maker, but his content is skewed so that the powers governing our society will allow his films to be promoted to the general public, unlike more informative films that are limited to an audience of select Internet viewers and select DVD purchasers.