Michael Moore has done it again. His movie Sicko shows what the Medical Industry and Big Pharma are up to and have been up to for years. (evidently since the Nixon Presidency) Michael exposes the greed going on in corporate medicine. That is the only consideration. The bottom line. It  is all about the money.  They just don't care. People are treated in prisons better than people with no insurance on the street. Canadians do not pay for health care. All Canadians' medical and pharmaceutical  needs are provided free by Canadian Health Care .

Sicko is shining the light of visibility on  the health care industry. Actually it functions more like a disease care industry. It's practices are inhumane. The movie makes it clear that the medical industry does not care for patients who have no money. Michael filmed one hospital dumping a disoriented elderly woman who had no money to pay her bill in the middle of the streets of East L.A.  But, do corporate hospitals care? It is one less person taxing their company. Hey, at least they gave her a ride out there.

The doctor's and nurse's do care. It is just their hands are tied by procedures and policies that the corporate CEO's and CFO's lay down.

Healthnotes Newswire (May 17, 2007)—Instead of giving smoke breaks, employers could better serve their employees—and increase productivity—by helping smokers quit. New research shows that smoking cigarettes leads to people taking more sick time than their nonsmoking colleagues.

Everyone knows that smoking is bad for health, but many people don’t realize that smoking has other costs to society. Not only do the high costs of healthcare for smokers constitute an estimated 8% of all healthcare costs in the United States, it turns out that lost productivity poses an even greater economic burden. But this effect is hard to measure.

“Chinese medicine is probably one of the oldest, if not the oldest system of natural medicine that has existed continuously for over two thousand years. We have records dating back at least two thousand three hundred years, so we know that these practices were being used and developed in very ancient times and have been a part of Chinese culture and Asian civilization in general for millennia.

"Acupuncture, as an example, is a method of healing that is low-tech. It requires very simple implements, and in ancient times people used shards of stone, ceramic pots, pieces of bamboo, or, in the Middle Age, they began to use different metals – iron, copper, gold and silver.

“Whatever the level of technology that the civilization had, they developed very simple tools for stimulating the body to promote a healing response. There’s a great deal of controversy, still, about how acupuncture itself was discovered or invented. But let’s just say that thousands of generations of practitioners and patients have demonstrated without a doubt that this method is effective.

“The fact that it’s so simple in its essence and so low technology to produce the implements makes it a very serviceable method of healthcare for people all over the world. One of our missions has been to promote the use of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine as a system of primary care, particularly in underserved communities throughout the world - and not only in the third world, but also in the United States, where people still don’t have access to health care the way they should”