Sicko

Sicko

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Sicko

Michael Moore

If you want to stay healthy in America, don't get sick. Following on the heels of his award winning hit "Fahrenheit 9/11" and his Oscar® winning film "Bowling for Columbine," acclaimed filmmaker Micha...( read more  read more... )el Moore's new documentary sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.

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  • September 22, 2009
    A very good piece of propaganda from Michael Moore. Like his earlier efforts, Moore has no intention of providing us with a balanced view concerning the issue of healthcare. He provides us with shocking stories, which are equally funny and heart wrenching. However, once it's all ...( read more)over, you just have to question his arguments. He doesn't address the problems of other countries healthcare, just uses their good points to make the American system look bad. Yes, it probably is worse than most, but he should really be evaluating all outcomes of such a switchover. It has some of Moore's trademark OTT attention grabbing, such as the journey to Cuba. Which is a fitting climax.
  • June 7, 2009
    A controversial documentary critical of the U.S. by Micheal Moore how original.
  • May 1, 2009
    I always see Michael Moore's excellent documentaries from two sides -- at least. One the one hand, he is very good at layering in "evidence" to support the major thesis of the project -- in this case, the sorry state of the US healthcare system in terms of the for-profit mentali...( read more)ty that drives everything from treatment, to insurance coverage, to the cost of prescriptions.

    On the other hand, I'm always very much aware of the one-sidedness of his argument, regardless of the fact that I am usually in total agreement with what he is saying about, say, healthcare in this instance. I'm also always a little skeptical about his offer of solutions to a given problem, be it gun control or what have you. To say that the solution is "obvious" is not my idea of a well-formed argument -- even if I agree that the solution is obvious.

    I would advise anyone, even "members of the choir" like myself, to view Moore's work with a medium to large sized grain of proverbial salt. He is a master of making strong emotional arguments, but every issue on the magnitude of, say, healthcare reform in the US, has many, many sides, and workable solutions may not be as obvious as Moore may make you believe they appear to be.

  • January 26, 2009
    Love him or hate him, Michael Moore's fundamental points in this film cannot be disputed: in America, if you can't pay for your health care, and if you don't qualify (or are systematically refused) for insurance, you don't get health care. As always with Moore, his use of music m...( read more)akes the tone a little too epic for the low-involvement message he's delivering, and on the whole, his stunts are a little too self-aggrandizing. He plays up the healthcare systems in Canada, the UK, France and even Cuba as seeming utopias, which might be a stretch, but the point is best made by former Labour MP (UK) Tony Benn: Britain realized - three years after World War II, when the average Brit may have been less healthy than the average American is today - that "if we can find money to kill people, we can find money to help people".

    With no disrepect to Hillary Clinton, I couldn't help but consider this: Michael Moore wanted a Democrat to win the 2008 election. Before Barack Obama entered the race, Hillary was by far the favourite. Did Moore choose to talk about the American health care system only to sway people toward voting for the likely Democratic nominee? What if (e.g.) Obama had been in the race at the time, and likely to win? Would one of Obama's pet issues - though he has done well to make sure people see him focus on more than one, but let's say climate change - have then been the topic of Moore's project?

    There's no question that Moore has an axe to grind, and that in eliding details - whether it's for the sake of the limits of the medium, appealing to "the masses" who get "facts" from movies and not books, or because of his "liberal bias" - he does sometimes undermine his own credibility. Sicko marks a return to form, though: it's much better than Fahrenheit 9/11 (in which he exploited a very tenuous link between the Bush and Bin Laden families). This time, the premise is more than hearsay, and only one conclusion can be made: as it's practiced in the U.S., privatized healthcare sucks compared to the public systems in the rest of the world. That's the only point that he needs to make, the rest is just for show. Excellent film from an excellent filmmaker.
  • December 20, 2008
    A well put, tell you like it is and if you don't like it, well too bad documentary. The health care system in this country is ridiculous and this shows you a good glimpse of that.
  • December 14, 2009
    Shattering look at broken, corrupt US Health system may be Moore's best, most poignant work; his focus on reportage over grandstanding helps immeasurably. Makes me angry, and sad, that the Howard government had pushed us ever-so-slightly toward the US model.
  • December 8, 2009
    Michael Moore is Fearless!! i love all his docs!!
  • November 8, 2009
    Interesting look into the world of insurance coverage and healthcare or lack of it.
  • November 5, 2009
    Michael Moore has some good points but he also has a few swiss cheese arguments.Overall though this film really opens your eyes and that's always good.....
  • November 4, 2009
    México va para alla!

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