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Yes! Michael Moore has done it again. I don’t really know if again is the right word, since Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 911 didn’t make such a big impression on me, although they were right on point, showing some of the America’s biggest issues. No, it didn’t just impress me, it flat blew my mind.

The movie starts of with a few horrible stories regarding uninsured people. The first few minutes show a man stitching his wound. Why? because he doesn’t have a health insurance. He’s a part of the misfortunate 50 million Americans, that can’t afford it. The next guy tells about his sawing accident, when he lost a couple of his finger tips. He was faced with a horrible decision about which finger tip he wants sawn back. He chose, as Moore ironically commented, the ring finger as a hopeless romantic, which costed him only 12.000$. The middle finger would cost him 60.000$. Movie continues with insurance companies, which are always trying hard to find anything and by that I really mean anything to deny payment of medical care or medication costs. So being insured, can’t make you feel secure. You can get screwed anyway. After that he moves to Europe (UK, France) to compare their health care system to the American. To his “great amazement” he finds out that everything is free. As a comparison he shows a man who’s five fingers were completely cut off and he got a complete medical treatment, yes you guessed correctly, free of charge. I won’t get into too much detail, since I don’t want to add to many spoilers…

And at the end he presents the 9/11 volunteers, which got diseases for helping out at ground zero and were refused for medical treatment. Moore rents a few boats with an intention to get them treated in Guantanamo Bay, the only place with universal health care in America (or better said on American soil). Ofcourse they were denied (doh, hehe), so he takes them to a hospital in Havana, to once again and for the final time mock the American health care system (I’m not really sure if it should be called like that). After all of them got treated for free and get some medications (inhalers that cost around 5c in Cuban pharmacies, cost 120$ in the States) the story comes to an end.

All I can say is that I can only recommend this documentary and give it a rating of 10/10.

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