Sicko

The film starts with a man that cut off two of his fingers. Why did he chose to replace just one?

• It was too expensive to replace both

• The other one was too damaged to replace

• His insurance company would only pay for one

• He planned on applying for permanent disability

Insurance companies routinely deny insurance to people that want to buy it because

• The government prohibits them from buying it

• They are not eligible since they are undocumented

• They are unemployed

• They already have health problems that become very expensive to the insurance company

Donelle Keys daughter Mychelle died primarily because

• She had a genetic disorder

• The doctors did not now how to help her

• The hospital was not going to be paid by Myschells insurance because it was not an approved hospital so they refused to help her

• Her mother took too long to get her to a hospital

The Smith family (Donna and Larry) lost their home because of medical bills even though they had insurance because

• They had so many health problems they maxed out their insurance

• Their insurance was canceled because they forgot to pay

• heart attacks and cancer are not covered

• They invested in a risky business that failed

Even though Seniors can get medical coverage through Medicare, they often still have to work because of the extreme costs of

• the deductibles

• the co-pays

• medication

• transportation

The little girl Annette was able to get her hearing support operation because

• She had Kaiser insurance

• Her family could afford the surgery

• Her father sued the hospital

• Her father threatened to have her case displayed on a Michel Moore documentary.

The first attempt to create a system of universal health care for all was led by

• the American Medical Association

• Ronald Reagan

• Hilary Clinton

• the republican 103rd congress

Bob and Estelle needed to met Michael Moore at sears because they

• wanted to meet him half way

• they needed to pay their national insurance bill

• they work there and met him at the end of their shift

• they wanted to buy out of country insurance so they could visit him in the USA.

English people established health care for all

• with their original governmental guidelines in the Magna Carta

• after the destruction of WWII

• in 1991

• after the communist party won control of the Parliament

In the United States, people that can not pay their hospital expenses often

• get dropped of at homeless shelters

• get help from local churches

• die before they are allowed to be released

• can request exemptions from charges