Sicko debuted in 9th place, grossing $4.5 million in 441 screens over the weekend. Can you correlate these numbers to America’s appetite for health care reform? David Hogberg tries to.
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Well, I can say Ratatouille grossed $47.2 million this weekend. I went to see it, I would highly recommend it, and it definitely increased my appetite for French food!
Bottom Line: The status quo has many trillions of dollars worth of sheer momentum.
That translates to raw political power. The medical industrial complex practically owns the government and dominates the media.
This status quo is not sustainable in the long run.
Our health care system has become a kind of legalized theft. It’s all about money, not common human decency…and there just isn’t enough money in the world to satiate the unlimited greed of this sector.
Change will come, or the system will, eventually, collapse.
This isn’t Bombay. Americans will not stand (for long) for a country in which the poor go away and die, the rich (usually
get excellent care and the middle class just gets screwed at every turn.
WHAT FREE MARKET? I couldn’t get health insurance for years and I had the money to pay for a premium. But the health insurance companies kept changing the reasons why the would not insure me. My medical crime? I was a freelancer! God forbid a person tries to go into business for themselves. How is it a free market when a person has NO CHOICES? I had NO CHOICES, yet I had income. I have met many other people who went through or are going through the same exact situation. And by the way Sicko had the second highest grossing per screen average its first week. The Rat movie was on around $11,000 per screen. On a per screen basis Sicko was #2.
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