If you are like me — and since you are visiting a website about raising a peaceful family, you probably are — you’ve looked around and thought, “Dear God, there must be a better way to do things than this — this is insane!” It might be about rush hour traffic, or the lack of sustainability in Hawaii, or even just having decent medical coverage for your family.

That thought, that vision of what else is possible, is what really appealed to me in Michael Moore’s latest movie, “Sicko”. I think everyone who’s ever thought about “is this job worth it, just because it has medical coverage” can understand the feelings in this film. Moore presents cases of people suffering because medical services they needed were turned down or cost too much through their HMO coverage. (He doesn’t even get into the over 50 million people that are uninsured.)

However, it’s when he visits other countries to seeing how they do things that really got me. Canada, France, Great Britain, even Cuba, have a health plan to cover the people, all of them. And in France the government offers so many other services. As a dad, I had to use vacation time when my son was born at the company I work at. In other countries, they understand the need for time off, and being with family. Are those other countries perfect? Probably not. But is this country? Aren’t there things we could learn from other countries to improve the U.S.?

If you get the chance, rent or buy “Sicko” and see if you don’t at least feel like there IS a better way…

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