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the United States government HAS ignored the health conditions that have developed in September 11 volunteer workers.

Moore's most significant point in SiCKO is this: in a land where health care is private, the goal is not to actually help people but to make a profit. Thus there is significant incentive for insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, lobbyists and congressmen to turn away those in need (or make it extremely expensive to get help) rather than spend the money to assist them. While many politicians continue to preach the evil of socialized health care, the fact is that it works in other nations. Additionally, he wonders why it is such an issue when these same politicians seem to have absolutely no problem whatsoever with socialized police systems, fire departments, postal services and public education.

In the film, one of the Americans living in France echoes a line from V for Vendetta: France has the number one health care system in the world (as ranked by the World Health Organization) because there the government is afraid of its people. The United States is able to get away with being the only industrialized nation in the world without universal health care because here, people are afraid of the government. Things are likely to remain stagnant until that changes.

"What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and moving/ They don't gotta burn the books, they'll just remove them."
- Rage Against the Machine

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