Sicko.

[SoonerCoug]

I watched Sicko last night. It's not an objective documentary, but it's interesting enough.

The problem with Michael Moore is that his documentaries have an agenda, which makes them rather dishonest documentaries, in my opinion.

However, I'm really glad I watched Sicko, and I highly recommend to to everyone. Moore raises plenty of valid points, and there is plenty of good food for thought. He is generally positive about physicians, and very negative about politicians, insurance companies, and big pharma.

Another interesting point is that Moore focuses almost exclusively on patients who have insurance. He then compares and contrasts insured Americans' experiences with those of people in Canada, England, and France.

One of the more striking parts of the film is when he walks into a random Havana pharmacy, and medications that cost 120 dollars in America are being sold for 5 cents.

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by SoonerCoug

I watched Sicko last night. It's not an objective documentary, but it's interesting enough.

The problem with Michael Moore is that his documentaries have an agenda, which makes them rather dishonest documentaries, in my opinion.

However, I'm really glad I watched Sicko, and I highly recommend to to everyone. Moore raises plenty of valid points, and there is plenty of good food for thought. He is generally positive about physicians, and very negative about politicians, insurance companies, and big pharma.

Another interesting point is that Moore focuses almost exclusively on patients who have insurance. He then compares and contrasts insured Americans' experiences with those of people in Canada, England, and France.

One of the more striking parts of the film is when he walks into a random Havana pharmacy, and medications that cost 120 dollars in America are being sold for 5 cents.

Funny how a left wing wacko fillmaker like Michael Moore can go to Havana to do business but an ordinary American would get slapped with a heavy fine from the US govt. just for stepping foot there. One of the dumbest laws still on the books.

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by BlueK

Funny how a left wing wacko fillmaker like Michael Moore can go to Havana to do business but an ordinary American would get slapped with a heavy fine from the US govt. just for stepping foot there. One of the dumbest laws still on the books.

journalists, humanitarian and diplomatic people.

Moore's trip was investigated I believe.

I agree though it is a dumb ass law

If we deal with China, Vietnam, and Libya, why not Cuba?

Lifting the embargo would also take some wind out of Chavez's sails

[MikeWaters]

Watched Sicko. Recommend it.

I didn't like Bowling for Columbine so much, esp when he was a real asshole to Charleton Heston.

I don't think necessarily everything in Sicko is accurate, or that every side was presented, but it is worthy of sparking a conversation of how we operate in America. With more issues than just healthcare.

[8ballrollin]

I read a little while back that a lot of the hard-core lefties didn't like it. Did a search and found the article below. I didn't know, outside of Madison and Berkeley, there were still guys like this around...a true socialist, who doesn't like Moore's watered-down “quasi-socialist, populist notions”.

"The film relies, as we noted in the original review, on personal anecdote. Why couldn’t a right-wing director make a film composed of interviews with thoroughly satisfied health insurance company clients in the US and thoroughly dissatisfied Europeans and Canadians? What would that prove?

Crudity is never excusable. “A pockmarked art,” it was pointed out many years ago, “is no art and is therefore not necessary to the working masses. Those who believe in a ‘pock-marked’ art are imbued to a considerable extent with contempt for the masses” (Trotsky)."

interesting read...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/ju...moor-j14.shtml

Comrade's movie review:
"Michael Moore’s Sicko: very limited conceptions, very limited results"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/ju...sick-j07.shtml