Notes from the weekend on a Monday

[gillian_sans]

I watched Michael Moore's "Sicko" on Friday which was a pretty bad idea because now all I can think about is the high cost of health care in America and how we're all basically screwed if we get cancer. The thing about Moore, though, is that he's not really a very good documentarian. Can we even call him that? His opinions are so obvious (and

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[gillian_sans]

I cried too. Moore is really good at that kind of manipulation. When he took those 9/11 workers down to Cuba and they got the kind of treatments they were being denied in the states I totally bawled my eyes out. Especially when the Cuban doctor told that one woman not to cry because "everything will be alright, we'll take care of you" and she was all "no one's ever said that to me before." Bawling, Aja. For me, especially, because I've only been insured for a month and a half an in that time I've seen one doctor and had an expensive test done and haven't heard anything from my insurance company so I'm still on pins and needles about whether or not I'm really covered. Then, after watching the movie I was basically feeling like we're fucked no matter what happens so what's the point of any of it? Especially when Moore talked about that woman who was a nurse at a good hospital and had group coverage under them and her husband got cancer needed a bone marrow transplant that was proven to cure patients of this kind of cancer and he was

[gillian_sans]

Yeah, the wife asked (or accused, really) the board of trustees of her hospital if the reason why her husband was denied was because he was black. Oh, god, that old man. That job was so much physical labor and he clearly didn't have a car because half of his interview was him talking while walking along a busy street and he needed that job because working there got him a discount on the drugs he and his wife needed that Medicare wasn't covering. When he said that he was 79 (or however old he is) and still working and would work until he died, man. I thought that I'm probably going to end up just like that.

You're probably right.