I found this portion of a review of the SICKO movie at www.rottentomatoes.com.
It's a nice overview of the film's basics. What I'd like to know, for those of us/you who work in the Medical Billing industry, how does our current health care situation effect our industry? How would drastic changes effect OUR security in Medical Billing?
Sicko is not a movie about the 50 million Americans walking around without health insurance. Sicko is a movie about the other 250 million of us who have insurance, but are just as well and truly screwed. It’s also about freedom, real freedom, not the empty kind that gets thrown around as a buzzword; the freedom to live your life with the certainty that forces beyond your control won’t take away everything you have and everything you are. We don’t have that kind of freedom here in America, and Moore’s film makes that point by simply talking to real people. They’re your neighbors, your friends, your parents, some of them are even 9/11 heroes. Moore uses his camera to let them tell their stories of insurance company mistreatment and in the process paints a complete picture of a corrupt and fatally flawed system which isn’t just killing people but taking away their dignity and their liberty.
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I highly recommend watching Sicko if you haven't already. Having worked as a medical billing clerk, I know what a nightmare it is to deal with these health insurance companies. At the moment, I don't have health insurance. I was extremely lucky to have health insurance when I needed major surgery a couple of years ago for my endometriosis. The total cost of the surgery and the hospital stay was around $20,000. Without the surgery, the endometriosis would have left me infertile.
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