Sicko

Nurses promote Sicko
Originally uploaded by deanocratforever

I've just been to see Sicko, a film by Micheal Moore. It is about how the American health care system compares with health care in other country's; UK, France Canada and Cuba. It was a scary inditement of American health care. Slightly let down by over dramatising and a comparison of USA care against the health care given to detainees in Guantanamo which to be honest bordered on torture, subjecting the inmates to excessive and intrusive and invasive investigations and supposed screening. It also revealed some flaws in our system such as the massive amounts GP's appear to be paid considering they on the whole no longer provide an out of hours service. I'm not denying that most GP's do very good work or that they are encouraged to practice preventative medicine is a good thing; but I do worry about the accessibility of primary health care. All this said it should be compulsory viewing for any one involved in planning or commissioning health care.