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The controversial documentarian Michael Moore investigates here the profitable industry – and the discrimination – which lies behind the Health Maintenance Organization in the USA, while comparing its greedy system with other First World countries, where the access to Medicine is free and universal. American HMO breakdown affects some 47 millions of unprotected citizens, not to mention the large amount of insured people who can not count with health assistance due to bureaucracy. This is the case of the heroes who helped to rescue victims on September 11 and now suffer debilitating diseases and have no assistance from American government. The film shows a precise depiction of the insane and many times cruel health system in the USA, which not only excludes but creates unbridgeable barriers for a population who looks for basic treatment. According to Moore, an alternative system is the only solution.