just saw it with Memphis, and it's totally absorbing, though i was irritated by the rosey picture of other nation's health care system. when i lived in Belgium, i had a great experience. had a nasty strep throat once, went to the doctor, got a perscription, walked down the road, paid $20ish, then got to send in a rebate for the $20, and got a note saying that i should be out of work for the next 3 days. totally great. no waits at all.
but i've heard the horror stories from british friends about the NHS. and there's more, but no need to go into that here.
it's a very good film. and there's less of Moore-being-Moore, which is a good thing because he's such a polarizing figure now that he can only detract from his message.
i think what i took away from the film -- and i am a freelancer, so i have to purchaes my own insurance, and being a healthy young person, is just under $150 a month -- is that i need to damn well take good care of myself, eat right, exercise, live well, manage stress, deal with issues before they become problems, and do whatever i can in order to lessen my chances of developing serious medical issues later in life.
but i'm lucky. no cancer. no chronic diseases. i'm fit as a fiddle.
and i wonder, if it wasn't probably illegal to ask, i wonder if it could be determiend that it would be in a company's best interests to ask whether or not i'm gay and then deny me insurance based upon being more statistically at risk for HIV (despite the fact that i was always far more paranoid about safe sex than my straight counterparts).
i don't know what the answer is, but i do think there are things i can do, as an individual, to make things better at least for myself.
and, soon, i'll probably get to be on Memphis's spectacular employee healthcare. so, yay to that.