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My opinion about health coverage is that it's a messed Up

My opinion about health coverage is that it's a messed up and corrupt system that needs to be fixed immediately Health care will cover for the minimum of hospital bills in order to make a profit but still not seem like a bad guy by paying for someone's hospital bill In the 2007 documentary Sicko Michael Moore aimed to see what health care really covered for their patient s hospital bills Traveling between the US Canada the United Kingdom France and Cuba he investigated the health care system and how non universal and universal health care affected people To his discovery the United States was the only country still using the corrupted non universal for profit healthcare system Sicko shows brief clips of President Nixon and John Ehrlichman discussing the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 In their taped conversation Ehrlichman is heard saying the less care they give them the more money they make to which Nixon remarked fine and not bad This was the start of a very corrupt healthcare system John Quincy is a loving caring father who would do anything for his son When he saw his son fall during a baseball game he raced to the hospital to save his son's life John sold all of his things and even had neighbors help by bringing in donations to cover for his son s hospital stay When he learned that his son was going to be released and that nothing could be done for him besides some medicine he took measures into his own hands Holding the hospital hostage he would do anything to make sure his son kept receiving treatment and he would sacrifice himself to make sure his son got a new heart because his was enlarged 



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