Sicko (Special Edition)
starring: Michael Moore, Tucker Albrizzi, Tony Benn, George W. Bush, Reggie Cervantes
directed by: Michael Moore
directed by: Michael Moore
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Studio: Genius Products IncRelease Date: 05/20/2008Rating: Pg13
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SiCKO is more like a controlled howl of protest than a documentary. Toning down the rhetoric of past efforts--no CEOs, congressmen, or celebrities were accosted in the making of this film--Michael Moore's latest provocation is just as heartfelt, if not more heartbreaking. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn't the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage has failed to meet their needs. He starts by speaking with patients who've been denied life-saving procedures, like chemotherapy, for the most spurious of reasons. Then he travels to Canada, England, and France to see if socialized medicine is as inefficient as U.S. politicians like to claim--especially those who receive funding from pharmaceutical companies. Moore finds quality care available to all, regardless as to income. He concludes with a stunt that made headlines when he assembles a group of 9/11 rescue workers suffering from a variety of afflictions. When Moore is informed that detainees at Guantánamo Bay--technically American soil--qualify for universal coverage, he and his companions travel to Cuba to get in on that action. It's a typically grandstanding move on Moore's part. And it proves remarkably effective when these altruistic individuals, who've either been denied treatment or forced to pay outrageous costs for their medication, experience a dramatically different system. Nine years in the making, SiCKO makes a persuasive case that it's time for America to catch up with the rest of the world. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Studio: Genius Products IncRelease Date: 05/20/2008Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com:
SiCKO is more like a controlled howl of protest than a documentary. Toning down the rhetoric of past efforts--no CEOs, congressmen, or celebrities were accosted in the making of this film--Michael Moore's latest provocation is just as heartfelt, if not more heartbreaking. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn't the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage has failed to meet their needs. He starts by speaking with patients who've been denied life-saving procedures, like chemotherapy, for the most spurious of reasons. Then he travels to Canada, England, and France to see if socialized medicine is as inefficient as U.S. politicians like to claim--especially those who receive funding from pharmaceutical companies. Moore finds quality care available to all, regardless as to income. He concludes with a stunt that made headlines when he assembles a group of 9/11 rescue workers suffering from a variety of afflictions. When Moore is informed that detainees at Guantánamo Bay--technically American soil--qualify for universal coverage, he and his companions travel to Cuba to get in on that action. It's a typically grandstanding move on Moore's part. And it proves remarkably effective when these altruistic individuals, who've either been denied treatment or forced to pay outrageous costs for their medication, experience a dramatically different system. Nine years in the making, SiCKO makes a persuasive case that it's time for America to catch up with the rest of the world. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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- Medicine in the US is sick
I'm a medical insider, a physician, and I can tell you that Moore went very easy on providers in this film. He could have gone after overly competitive, anal, greedy providers (nurses, docs, physician assistants) as well, but he decided to focus on the administrative side of things. At least providers do the actual work of seeing patients, but let me assure you that there are many people, and not as many docs as you would think, pulling millions of dollars out of the medical insurance pot. So it ... Read More
Rating: - A sickening wake up call for all Americans
SiCKO is one of the best researched and presented indictments of a cruel system I have witnessed! Not only every American, but everyone who can read and write in our World today, should have access to this Film. I believe it should be shown to every School Student in the USA, for apparently, they may be the only ones who can, and will have to demand the Nationalization of their Health System! For the sake of the better Health of every American, someone in a responsible position, with backbone, should ... Read More
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- Oversimplification of a complex issue
So here we are once again. Our good buddy Michael Moore is going to do what he does best: Oversimplify a complex issue.
For instance, in Sicko we learn that the Cuban system of medicine is far superior to the United States.How do we learn this?He brings some everyday Americans with him to Cuba to buy their expensive exploitive American medicines for little to no money.Wow.That Fidel Castro is such a compassionate and progressive fellow isn't he? No mention is made of course of the ... Read More
Rating: - Jesus -not crusaders- would love Michael!
Mr. Moore sometimes gets attacked for being a fatso socialist who doesn't really make documentaries.
In SICKO Moore leads a small film crew that shares the unravelled fate (of only a few of the 24,000) volunteered and desperate US health care victims who quickly replied to his call for attention.
Moore, as an artful dodger, sheds light on some of the the most outrageously unfair cases upon an international stage. It is this staging that provokes the outrage of staid documentary ... Read More
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- Mr. Paine anyone?
Michael Moore, America's living embodiment of Thomas Paine, gives us a measured, and uncommonly evenhanded look at America's health-care industry as compared to those in Canada, England, and France. Although pocked by spurts of pomposity, Sicko uses the "cruel to be kind" method of educating its viewers about the issue of universal health care in the United States. "Look at the other civilized countries," Moore says; "their systems work. When other countries make better cars, we drive them. When other countries ... Read More
- Medicine in the US is sickI'm a medical insider, a physician, and I can tell you that Moore went very easy on providers in this film. He could have gone after overly competitive, anal, greedy providers (nurses, docs, physician assistants) as well, but he decided to focus on the administrative side of things. At least providers do the actual work of seeing patients, but let me assure you that there are many people, and not as many docs as you would think, pulling millions of dollars out of the medical insurance pot. So it ... Read More
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- A sickening wake up call for all AmericansSiCKO is one of the best researched and presented indictments of a cruel system I have witnessed! Not only every American, but everyone who can read and write in our World today, should have access to this Film. I believe it should be shown to every School Student in the USA, for apparently, they may be the only ones who can, and will have to demand the Nationalization of their Health System! For the sake of the better Health of every American, someone in a responsible position, with backbone, should ... Read More
Rating:
- Oversimplification of a complex issueSo here we are once again. Our good buddy Michael Moore is going to do what he does best: Oversimplify a complex issue.
For instance, in Sicko we learn that the Cuban system of medicine is far superior to the United States.How do we learn this?He brings some everyday Americans with him to Cuba to buy their expensive exploitive American medicines for little to no money.Wow.That Fidel Castro is such a compassionate and progressive fellow isn't he? No mention is made of course of the ... Read More
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- Jesus -not crusaders- would love Michael!Mr. Moore sometimes gets attacked for being a fatso socialist who doesn't really make documentaries.
In SICKO Moore leads a small film crew that shares the unravelled fate (of only a few of the 24,000) volunteered and desperate US health care victims who quickly replied to his call for attention.
Moore, as an artful dodger, sheds light on some of the the most outrageously unfair cases upon an international stage. It is this staging that provokes the outrage of staid documentary ... Read More
Rating:
- Mr. Paine anyone?Michael Moore, America's living embodiment of Thomas Paine, gives us a measured, and uncommonly evenhanded look at America's health-care industry as compared to those in Canada, England, and France. Although pocked by spurts of pomposity, Sicko uses the "cruel to be kind" method of educating its viewers about the issue of universal health care in the United States. "Look at the other civilized countries," Moore says; "their systems work. When other countries make better cars, we drive them. When other countries ... Read More
