Sicko
Sicko
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Michael Moore was back in the headlines after Fahrenheit 9/11 with this less vitriolic, more focused documentary about the crumbling American healthcare system. The thesis of his polemic is this: places like Canada, Great Britain, France, even Guantanamo Bay enjoy universal healthcare, while the majority of Americans struggle with HMO nightmares, inflated costs, and inferior care in what is essentially a profit-oriented health-insurance industry. And it will keep getting sicker and sicker, so long as politicians take donations from the HMOs. The filmmaker's trips abroad to easily accessible hospitals are juxtaposed with maddening stories of American patients buried in debt and doctors who can''t operate on dying patients. After the film''s completion, Moore was famously investigated by the U.S. government for taking ailing 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba for respiratory treatments. Michael Moore---USA---2007---113 mins.

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