[naturaleigh]

Thank you ladies for the replies. This movie is my first encounter with Michael Moore, so I know nothing about him. I do not watch tv or go to movies much, so I am not in the know. I hope I did not offend anyone by bring up his name.

His movie did document other country's other than England. I mentioned England because I knew we had at least one member from there. He also visted Canada, France and Cuba, all of which had free health care.

I am not the most intelligent person in the world by far, but it does not make sense to me how an insurance company can determine whether or not a procedure; prescribed by your doctor, is medically essential for your treatment. The insurance people are not doctors and should not be able to deny payment on any treatment.

There were many things in the movie that "hit home". I was so thankful that I was assigned a paradigm nurse (through my insurance company), to make sure that all my procedures were pre-authorized. Had they not been pre-autorized, my insurance would not have covered the procedure and I would have owed the insurance company $200. That is absurb!! When you are going through a rough time like this, or having a baby, or in an accident where you have to go to the hospital, or many other things that need to be pre-authorized, the last thing you are thinking about is your insurance.

It really angers me that I have invested 20+ yrs paying for insurance and not using it, then when I need it, it is like pulling teeth and nails to get the benefits that I should be initialed to without hassell. There are alot of things that need to be changed, and I think if we were all to pull togther something could be done about the cost and the aggrevation of the system we all surrender to. The health care, along with everything else is continually skyrocketing with less benefits to the people. It is my hope the Michael Moore stirs up enough controversy to at least start some type of change with the raising cost of health care.

One gentlemen from France stated that "here (France) the government is afraid of the people, in the US the people are afraid of the goverment."

I don't know that "free" health care could work in the US, but one should pay premimums according to his/her means. The way it is now, if you make $15,000 per yr you pay the same amount of someone who makes $120,000 or more a yr.