Homework 26- Looking forward and back in the unit

Insights & Ideas from the unit so far:
-The American healthcare system isn't as good as it can be. (Source: Michael Moore's Sicko)
-Socialized healthcare CAN work (Source: Michael Moore's Sicko)
- Kobe Bryant is the best player in the NBA (Source: Really? Common Knowledge)
-There will always be people that are sick and dying, but it is always possible to reduce that number. (Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder)
-When it comes to helping the sick, you have to focus on their needs over anything else. (Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder)
-Sometimes, no matter how much you believe you think you can do to save someone from death, there's just nothing you can do. (Source: Fredrick Wiseman's "Near Death")
-Calling a code may look cool and save people in movies, but in real life it rarely works or happens (Source: Fredrick Wiseman's "Near Death")
The Unit so far:
 I think I've learned a little from each source that we've used. They've all been on different topics, and at the same time intertwine. "Sicko" was about healthcare in america, and it took a very subjective point of view of things. I liked "Sicko" mostly because I agreed with a lot of what Michael Moore is saying. I think that it present some good valid points, but at the same time some of it was really biased and didn't show the other side, and that took away some of the impact of what the film was saying. Mountains Beyond Mountains follows a doctor in Haiti that makes a difference. It mostly praises Doctor Paul Farmer's work while telling his story. I liked this source because it told the story about how one person can make a difference. I liked this source because it gave some good insight about sickness and dying in third world countries. What I didn't like is at some points it felt repetitive and hard to read. "Near Death" gave raw footage of a hospital's intensive care unit. What I liked about it was you saw what is really going on. It doesn't BS you. What annoyed me about "Near Death' was it jumped around a lot and sometimes it was hard to really understand what was going on. These three sources were all good because when put together were three different styles of work on three different topics in illness and dying. They give a well-rounded take on what it's like to be ill and/or dying. 
   I think that we've covered a good amount of topics/information in the illness and dying unit so far. One of the topics I am really interested in is U.S. healthcare and how it stacks up to other healthcare systems. I also think we should explore what changes have to be made in order for there to be a reform. We can do this by looking at what type of healthcare systems other countries have, and the advantages and disadvantages of these systems. We would have to explore the type of governments countries have and how that affects the healthcare. For example a country that is run with a socialist government is more likely to accept universal healthcare then one run by capitalists. Another topic that I think would be interesting to explore is medicine in the third world. We could explore how it's improving (or not improving). The way we could explore that would be through looking at average lifespans, HIV/AIDS figures, the figures of other diseases commonly associated with third world countries (TB, malaria, ect.). Illness and dying are interesting topics and I think exploring almost any topic would interest me.