Sicko

‘Sicko’ is a documentary made by Michael Moore to explore the broken healthcare system in United States of America. The system that exists today in America is a designed instrument to systemically siphon money from the common people to a handful of few. It is a brazen example of organized corporate plundering in the very land of liberty and justice. He shows a system that stems out from the same need and greed that nearly doomed the world economy on the verge of collapse. With example it shows what Nixon's motive was when he was addressing the nation on the new healthcare policies. The nexus formed by the corporate, lobbyists and congressmen deprives the common people of basic healthcare while stealing money from them. The corrective measure taken by Clinton government to set up a task force to recommend and regulate the healthcare policies never saw the daylight in the face of staunch opposition, criticism and through time tested socialist fear propaganda. The healthcare has been merely reduced to an industry where efficiency will be measured in profits rather than the social benefit.

As he presented the problem in the system he explored other systems that are being followed in rest of the developed western world like UK, France and Canada. He questions if the healthcare in necessary to be supported by corporate and tries to find the sustainability of so called 'socialist healthcare'. The systems in all three states are sponsored from taxpayer money and is sustaining for quite long, without exploiting, forcing or depriving people. He challenged the American psychosis with everything 'Socialist' with the 9/11 heroes treated in neighboring Cuba for free in the end, a promise their soil denied them for long.

With free market economies governing the dynamics of large part of Indian economy the questions that are raised in the documentary are very much relevant for us too. While we open our markets for healthcare we need to keep vigil that the system is not...