Sicko Facts

I recently watched the movie Sicko in my government class and had an eye opening experience. Sicko, produced and starring Michael Moore exposes the extreme sides of health care in the US, but it also brings up many questions.
Here is a fact sheet from Sicko,

• "The United States is the only industrialized country in the world without a universal health insurance system.
• In 2006, the U.S. census reported that 46 million Americans (recently revised downward to 45 million) have no health insurance.
•  “Over a third (36%) of families living below the poverty line are uninsured. Hispanic Americans (34%) are more than twice as likely to be uninsured as white Americans, (13%) while 21% of black Americans have no health insurance.”
• More than 9 million children lack health insurance in America.
• Eighteen thousand people die each year because they are uninsured.

This is just a small bit of the facts pulled from the movie (made in 2007). I find these facts fascinating because of their weirdness, for lack of a better word. These facts are weird, because America is highly industrialized and is viewed as one of the best countries in the world to live in, yet many people die because they do not receive health care.
Granted, Sicko takes many extreme cases and does not look into the bad sides of other health care systems. I am going to derive my own health care views from what I research in the upcoming months.