Fitness Cure’s review on Michael Moore’s HealthCare movie, SICKO!

Posted by Maria Kang on July 3, 2007

I watched the highly controversial documentary, SICKO, this past weekend and I really liked it. Michael Moore provides a ton of different perspective’s including:

- People who have health care and can’t get qualified for certain drugs/operations
- People who don’t have health care and struggle with getting qualified.
- People who work in the health care industry and get bonus’ for saving the company money by denying surgeries, medications, etc.
- People who live in Canada, France, London even Cuba – ALL who get better health care than us.

He also doves into politics including:
- Nixon’s audio tapes of when he allowed private enterprise to be responsible for the American citizen’s health insurance.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton’s effort to unify the health care system during the first 4 year’s of her husband’s presidency.
- And of course he includes Bush’s downfalls in relieving the situation.

What does all this have to do with fitness?
I definitely think that we are too dependent on doctors, too blameful on the system and WE NEED TO START TAKE PROGRESSIVE AND PREVENTATIVE ABOUT THE HEALTH OF OUR BODIES.

We can blame – we can point fingers: but what do we do after that?

We become informed, then we take action.

Just like when you find out you have a high BMI, cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. Once you know you need to change your habits, start taking progressive actions and CHANGE THAT HABIT.

So get more informed y’all – watch the movie. Support people who put different truths out in the media.

Fight for the Health of our nation!!!

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