It claims that according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 data, 17 million (38%) of the approximately 45 million uninsured people in the U.S. live in households that have incomes greater than $50,000 per year, an amount that Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis asserts is high enough that one could reasonably assume that the household's members should be able to afford some degree of health insurance coverage.

Additional demographics that make up a significant portion of the uninsured are the 18 million 18- to 34-year-olds that the film refers to as the "young invincibles", who spend four times as much money on alcohol, tobacco, entertainment, and dining out as on out-of-pocket healthcare, as well as the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. that the film asserts receive healthcare without being insured.

The short follows a Canadian woman named Janice Fraser, who suffers from a disease that has caused her bladder to stop functioning properly, leading to near constant pain, frequent infections and accompanying high fevers.

His doctor suspects a brain tumor may be the cause, and recommends McCreith get an MRI scan, but is told that he will have to wait 4 months.

East Germans would typically have to wait 8 years to receive their own Trabant, an unappealing vehicle that lacked even basic features, like fuel gauges.

Healey pays for her operation in Washington, and doctors there find that her artery is nearly completely blocked, a life-threatening condition that would have caused her intestines to perfuse inadequately, essentially leading her to starve to death.