Sick Around America Documentary Analysis

In the documentary film Sick Around America follows individuals around America with different medical scenarios and their experience with the health care system. The film starts out with a family who had a million-dollar baby to insurance companies. But this family did not have to worry about the cost because the father had a job at Microsoft. He had health insurance through them, so they end up paying for all bills from the baby. However, this is a rare case in America that individuals are covered through their employers. A lot of individuals are not covered, and this family is lucky that they had this coverage. An Indiana man did not get this luck, as he had group health insurance through his employer until he got laid off. When he tried to get individual health …show more content…
However, after this surgery, the insurance company revoked her coverage because she failed to tell them about minor bleeding she experienced before the surgery. They did not cover anything from the hospital visit, so she had to $160,000 in medical bills. Insurance companies revoke coverage to avoid fraud. Health insurance in the US is not like other developed countries, as the system does not require everyone to have it. Other countries have mandates for everyone to have insurance, and some do not have private insurance companies to avoid high premiums. The Obama administration tried to fix the health care system by implementing the affordable health care act that targets the working poor. The working poor are usually the individuals who fall between the cracks of the health care system. The battle of health care is still going on today, with president Trump trying to get rid of the system but not replacing it. If the system was removed, thousands would be uninsured and would not be able to get health insurance from private companies. America is already too deep in a hole to do what Taiwan did with their health care system, but small steps are needed to give everyone