Examples Of Capitalism In Sicko

17 Capitalism: Enemy of Social Welfare Ideologies have existed for the purpose of how a society should function by using ethical principles and methods to serve the people. The United State lives under the ideals of capitalism which is a system focus on wealth and making profit. However, this ideology has caused social problems within the welfare of others, in the sense of healthcare and poverty in the country. Unlike the U.S some countries, Russia and Canada, have dealt with poverty and healthcare in a more effective way, due to their ideologies. Canada lives under a socialist system with a poverty level lower than the U.S, regardless of being the most powerful country in the world. Canada ranks at 143 compare to the USA at 127 for countries that have a population falling under the poverty line. For those living on the poverty line the comparisons between the two countries are not as big but there is still huge difference due to …show more content…
In his film, Sicko, he compares and contrasts other countries healthcare’s system to ours. He finds out that in places such as Britain, medication are at a low price of $10 (Moore 2007). While in America medication is around the thousands, and sometimes an Americans healthcare will not cover for prescription drugs. Moore mentions in his film that employees who work for health insurances companies sometimes are fired if not keeping a 10 % denial rate. This is sick, how big health insurance companies treat other human beings like products. The film made the statement that the main reason why American do not support universal healthcare is because of all the communism propaganda. In Ronald Reagan’s time, he made it seem like universal healthcare is communistic. Americans should avoid all that is involved communism as well as socialism. This was thought of that time and yet these ideals still carried on to today’s