"psychiatric patient"

Carley 2022-03-23 09:02:20

You must have heard of Michael Moore. When my American friend Mac was still in China, he recommended his work - "Fahrenheit 911" to me. Yes, it's the fat bearded man who is "tricky" against the camera all day long. There are many people who love him, because he can look at the United States around him with a unique, humorous and ridiculing perspective, and ruthlessly give the powerful and powerful. Or the system poured a pot of shit; but he cursed other people, and many people also attacked him, anti-Moore websites, and books abound. The most famous website is Moore Watch, and the book is Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man. What's very funny is that Moore observed that this website has actually been supported by Moore. Simply put, the webmaster Jim's wife is mentally ill, and he no longer has the money to maintain the world's most visited anti-michael moore website. One day he got a check, and a few days later he got a phone message - it turned out that it was McMoore himself who secretly helped him.

Jim accepted the support, but still took a clear-cut role in collecting articles criticizing the big fat man, saying that he was eloquent and hypocritical. Probably because he has a big heart and a fat body, Moore, who has become a household name in the United States, actually enjoys seeing someone who has launched a website and published a book and scolded him. Out of creative sensitivity, he naturally did not miss the story of the "unlucky" Jim and his wife, all of which were filmed in his documentary "Sicko" (Sicko).

Although the play is suspected of playing gimmicks and depriving the right to speak, even the hardcore "anti-Moore" cannot ignore the basic thesis in "The Psycho": the US medical security system has long been a sick joke. An old beauty on Moore's website said something like this to support this point of view: We don't need Michael Moore to tell us this (god-damned American healthcare system). We get the clue from the ruinous medical bills that arrive in our mailbox, from our friends' gruesome stories of conditions untreated and claims denied, and even from the mouths of our own doctors. Moore doesn't see his films as portraying the tragic fate of people without health care, but rather on those People who have a certain amount of medical insurance but often find that their simple life will be messed up by doctor-patient problems, because you can't afford this "cruel" medical insurance system. As a result, a petty bourgeoisie who has a certain education and wants to go into politics has to accept the help of the enemy because of his wife's serious illness. Because the HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) said that the first aid measures were too "experimental" to be applied, the partner died of cancer. A patient with a diagnosed benign tumor dies due to delayed treatment... Moore seems to be no longer a director, but an interviewer, empathizing, quietly listening to the tragic experiences of those interviewed.

There's a great scene in the film: people in the health insurance industry openly admit that they're in an industry that's too lucrative. A former high-ranking HMO official testified before Congress - deeply reflecting and critical of the industry as a whole and his own disregard for patients' interests. Another "anti-water" person said, "You didn't voluntarily slide into the abyss, it was someone who cut a crack and pushed you down."

The climax of the film comes from the finale: Moore leads a boatload of American patients to Guantanamo to seek free access to what the U.S. government claims "inmates at Guantanamo receive the same high-quality medical care as U.S. citizens." Medical treatment; after giving up the prison, he led 10 workers who were disabled due to the "9.11" rescue and sent to Cuba. Contrary to the experience in the United States that they had no money to go to the hospital, they received meticulous treatment, and the American audience could really see Eyes full of tears as they expressed their gratitude... [Note: Because of the filming of this film, Moore has been sued by the government in court for illegally entering the Guantanamo base and transporting workers to Cuba to violate "trade" Embargo policy "under government investigation. ] The conclusion is clear: America is a country that is "money-oriented", obnoxious and absurd.

For various reasons, McMoore's "revolutionary" temperament has been questioned. For this aspect, please refer to the 43rd issue of "Sanlian Weekly" in 2007. However, being able to record the world in such a wonderful way itself proves the artistic value and practical significance of Moore's films. In fact, his films have aroused great repercussions among many middle- and low-income earners. Moore was clearly delighted to see.

I suddenly thought of a sentence from Mark Twain, a great American writer, "Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it." Complaints are complaints, and the most important thing is to take practical measures and implement them. There are more things in Chinese football that are on the right track. This idea seems to be irrelevant to this topic.

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Sicko quotes

  • Michael Moore: There are nearly 50 million Americans with no health insurance. They pray every day they don't get sick because 18,000 of them will die this year, simply because they're uninsured. But this movie isn't about them. It's about the 250 million of you who have health insurance. Those of you who are living the American Dream.

  • Michael Moore: I always thought health insurance companies were there to help us. So, I posted a note on the Internet asking people if they had had any similar stories.Within 24 hours, I had over 3,700 responses. And by the end of the week, over 25,000 people had sent me their healthcare horror stories. Some of them decided not to wait for me to get back to them. Like Doug Noe, who took matters into his own hands, without my permission. His daughter was nine months old when they discovered she was going deaf. His health insurance company, CIGNA, said they'd pay for an implant in only one of her ears. According to the letter they sent, it's experimental for her to hear in two ears.