"SICKO" The people in the movie didn't fall through the cracks, they were thrown overboard"

I BLAME THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY, THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES, THE RESEARCHERS IN THE UNVERSITIES, THE PSYCHIATRISTS, FOR HIDING THE TRUTH OF THE OF THE MALE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK ADVANCING PATERNAL AGE = GENETIC DISORDERS/DISEASES FROM THE PUBLIC



Many of those in the New York audience, the real life stars of "Sicko," were brought to tears by a film and filmmaker who viewed their lives with a lot more humanity than the insurance companies who had treated them with such calculated disregard. The people, who, as one industry whistleblower says in the film, didn't just "fall through the cracks." They were deliberately thrown overboard. Cast aside by the same insurance giants that far too many ostensible reformers think we should reward for their greed by funneling them hundreds of millions dollars more. "Sicko" is not just an indictment of an indefensible healthcare industry in the U.S. It's a rejoinder for those who think we can fix the soulless monster by tinkering with an unconscionable system that puts us further in thrall to those who created the crisis. Following the screening, Moore put it as simply as possible: the private insurance companies "have to go." Unlike too many of our friends in the progressive community, Moore did not go for the easy way out. There are no calls here for forcing individuals to buy unaffordable, junk insurance. Or handing over ever more tax dollars to those who profit by denying care, and whose biggest accomplishment, says Moore, "is buying our U.S. Congress" to protect their wealth and stranglehold over our health. There are no cynical ad homonyms to not let "the perfect be the enemy of the good" - the last refuge of the politicians desperate to convince us, and perhaps themselves as well, that the Faustian compromises they propose will all be OK. Tell it to the worker in "Sicko" who had to choose between restoring one severed finger for $60,000 or another for $12,000.