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America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry expose. SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's health-care crisis. After providing some historical background on how our nation's medical care system became so ravaged and unfair, Moore interviews a series of individuals and families who have had their lives all but destroyed by the denial of care in the service of profit. While there are two sides to the gun-control debate and even a legitimate discourse for how to best wage the war on terror, it's simply impossible to justify how a baby girl can wind up dead because her mother's health insurance wasn't accepted at a nearby hospital. Moore smartly allows this and other stories to be told with little or no interference, conjuring strong feelings of empathy, rage, and deep sadness.
Of course, SICKO isn't a PBS documentary, it's a Michael Moore movie, and his fingerprints are all over it. Moore visits countries that have universal health care--spectacularly so when he takes several World Trade Center workers to Guantanamo Bay (and then to Cuba) to receive health care that they were denied in the United States--and presents a compelling argument for adopting a similar system in the States. Moore's ultimate purpose here is to compel Americans to care for one another, and it's a simple request that shockingly must be made via a major motion picture, making SICKO essential viewing.
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This was a Excellent movie told the truth about Health care in the USA is ranked 37th in the world and how other countries are superior in taking much better care of their citizens. The movie showed how much better health care is in England / France / Canada and how the operations succeed the USA by giving everyone Free health not matter what background or how poor people are !!
I would recommend that every US citizen watch this. Some of it is kind of drawn out but the message just leaves you speechless at the end. Money and greed has gotten us where we are today. We need to stop spending our money overseas and work out a plan that can work for us that is the best of the plans shown in this movie.
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This is a movie that every American should watch. I bought three copies to share with friends and family.
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A very interesting dvd about the medical system that is briken from too much influence of the medical system on our polititions.I believe that the truth was real about other countries & their medical system.
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