I don't know when this movie will be released in China

Grayson 2022-04-22 07:01:39

It took two weeks to finish reading Moore's "The Nervous Man", and I also have a little understanding of the American medical system. Moore exposed the dark side of the American medical system to us one by one through stories. There are a lot of people who can't see a doctor because they don't have money and medical insurance, and they die. There are old people who can't pay their bills and end up being taken away in taxis and thrown into the slums. There are children who have missed the treatment time due to the constraints of various medical insurance companies and eventually died. There are also people who have been denied medical bills by medical insurance companies and given up treatment as a result. "We look at the information of each policyholder like a death penalty case, and we don't miss any details that can be withheld from insurance benefits," said a person in the medical insurance industry. (chilling) Moore, while earning enough people's tears, also hit people's hearts hard. Perhaps the most ironic is that he led a group of 9/11 disaster relief volunteers to seek the same medical treatment at Guantanamo Prison, where al-Qaeda terrorists are being held. Of course it turned out to be rejected. Finally, they went to a hospital in Cuba, where they received free medical care. When a woman with lung problems holds the same drug that costs $120 in the U.S. and 5 cents in Cuba, she weeps: "We have been fighting for this for about 20 years. It doesn't make sense."
Moore also uses a number of country-to-country comparisons in the film, documenting the medical conditions in Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. In all of these countries, you can get some level of free medical care, and it doesn't even matter whether you're a native or not. The most impressive is France. French citizens enjoy free high-quality medical services, and at the same time there are many other free benefits and incredible long paid holidays. But they also have to bear very cumbersome taxes, but for the middle-class family Moore interviewed, it seems that life is not stressful. Of course, each country has its own injuries on the back. Take France as an example. Although the quality of medical care in France is high, the country has a terrible deficit in this area every year.
There is a comment in the film that I remember most clearly: "I think there are two ways in which people can be controlled. First frighten people, and second demoralize them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is hard to govern. And I think there are elements in the thinking of some people. They don't want people to be educated, healthy and confident. Because they will get out of control."
Of course, whether this is the case or not is still a question mark. The so-called documentaries cannot fully present the real status quo. The film is always modified and processed by the director to express the director's own ideas.
When it comes to the market-oriented medical system in the United States, it is natural to think of the medical reform that has been going on in our country for a long time. The most impressive thing is only the separation of medicines. Well, actually I don't know much about this.
In 2005, when someone said that China's 20-year medical reform has almost failed, the public opinion circles boiled again. Yes, seeing a doctor is still so difficult, medicines are still so expensive, and corruption still exists. The market-oriented route just leaves more and more people without access to the most basic treatment. The tear-jerking stories in Moore's films are probably staged in every corner of China every day, but the ancients taught us to follow the middle path, so no one dared to jump out and make a "Chinese Neuropathy". Vulnerable groups are still vulnerable, and those who have nothing to do with themselves are only occasionally giving away their boring sympathy and satisfaction. In recent years, the direction of public opinion has blindly pointed the finger at the hospital and the doctor. It has intensified the already fragile doctor-patient relationship. (Is it interesting to scold the government directly and mislead the masses? Fighting will only make more people need treatment.) Come back and continue talking about medical reform, it seems that after the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China will introduce a new medical policy, this time the government Dominance is the mainstay, supplemented by some concepts of marketization, so that the medical business will not be lifeless. However, will there be new corruption, will the government's comprehensive intervention dampen the enthusiasm of the hospital, and what will it look like in the end? I don't know, let's wait and see.
Finally YY, I really want to go to England to be a doctor, and then go to France to retire in old age.

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  • Michael Moore: So there was actually one place on American soil that had free, universal healthcare.

    [cut to aerial picture of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba]

    Michael Moore: That's all I needed to know. I went down to Miami, Florida, Got myself a boat, and loaded up Bill, and Reggie, and John, and anyone else I could find who needed o see a doctor, and couldn't afford one. So many people showed up, I had to get a few extra boats. And I called up Donna Smith from Denver, who was now on 9 different medications, and asked her if she'd like to come along. I figured she'd like to get out of her daughter's basement for a while.

  • [Linda Peeno speaking before Congress]

    Linda Peeno: My name is Linda Peeno. I am here primarily today to make a public confession: In the Spring of 1987, as a physician, I denied a man a necessary operation that would have saved his life, and thus caused his death. No person, and no group has held me accountable for this, because in fact, what I did was I saved a company a half a million dollars for this. And for the more, this particular act secured my reputation as a good medical director, and it insured my continued advancement in the health care field. I went from making a few hundred dollars a week as a medical reviewer, to an escalating six-figure income as a physician executive. In all my work, I had one primary duty, and that was to use my medical expertise for the financial benefit for the organization which I worked. And I was told repeatedly that I was not denying care, I was simply denying payment. I know how managed care maims and kills patients. So I am here to tell you about the dirty work of managed care. And I'm haunted by the thousands of pieces of paper in which I have written that deadly word - "denied".