About the shattering of the American dream at Grey's Anatomy

Roberto 2022-04-21 09:02:41

The teacher in the medical English class showed this documentary. After watching it, I felt that I had been completely deceived by Grey's Anatomy. In the American TV series Grey, apart from the doctors' selflessness and professionalism, as well as their emotional entanglements, there are few scenes where patients are unable to pay for medical expenses, and the major surgery in the drama often costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Perhaps because in the TV series, Seattle Grace Hospital is not a public hospital, and most of the patients treated are upper-middle-class people. In addition to the doctors employed by insurance companies who used their professional knowledge to find loopholes and huge insurance premiums, this documentary weakened the roles of other American doctors, which made me feel that the beautiful images of the doctors in Grey should be more reflected in Canada, Enter doctors in England, France, and Cuba. Of course, this is all based on free medical security for all. When hospitals and medical workers are no longer related to their interests, patients will receive more focused treatment from them, and there will be no movies to choose which one to take based on the cost of surgery. Refers to absurd things happening. Private medical insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies bribed members of Congress to sign bills to protect their illegitimate interests. Politicians used socialist panic to fabricate lies to the public that universal health insurance could not be implemented, but Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, which are also capitalist countries, Why is there medical insurance that covers all citizens? And we, a socialist country like Cuba, have not achieved free medical insurance covering all citizens? Universal medical insurance is built on the basis of taxation. During the interview, the director did not understand why these countries should benefit those who cannot pay taxes through the taxes paid by those who can pay taxes. I think this is the sense of social responsibility.

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  • Aleida Guevara: Cuba is a little island in the Caribbean with little to no resources. We can do a lot to improve the people's health. This does not happen in the United States. Why are we able and you are not?

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    Michael Moore: It was hard for me to acknowledge that in the end, we truly are all in the same boat. And that now matter what are differences, we sink or swim together. That's how it seems to be everywhere else. They take care of each other, no matter what their disagreements. You know, when we see a good idea from another country, we grab it. If they build a better car, we drive it. If they make a better wine, we drink it. So if they've come up with a better way to treat the sick, to teach their kids, to take care of their babies, to simply be good to each other, then what's our problem? Why can't we do that? They live in a world of 'we', not 'me'. We'll never fix anything until we get that one basic thing right. And powerful forces hope that we never do. And that we remain the only country in the western world without free, universal health care. You know, if we ever did remove the chokehold of medical bills, college loans, daycare, and everything else that makes us afraid to step out of line, well, watch out. Cause it will be a new day in America. In the meantime, I'm gonna go get the government to do my laundry.