Sicko (Special Edition)
by Michael Moore
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Actor: Michael MooreDirector: Michael Moore
Brand: SICKO (DVD MOVIE)
Composer: Erin O'Hara
Editor: Christopher Seward
Editor: Geoffrey Richman
Editor: Dan Swietlik
Editor: Dan Sweitlik
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Sicko (Special Edition)
Movie Review: You Won't Get It Till You Watch This Film All The Way Through
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a person of deep moral cowardice, what you need to do to protect yourself during this film is to ignore the huge truths being talked about and focus on the films flaws. If you do that, you will be able to sleep at night and rationalize away what you are doing to your fellow citizen, which you so desperately need to do.
(Okay, okay, you're a good guy or gal and the above would never, ever apply to you. Excuse me, you know, I get all worked up over nothing. In fact, if you want, just to make amends, I'll help you make up criticisms of this film in order to justify your owning four cars while letting people die in the getter, because we all know that creating an economic inconvenience to you is really the worst thing that could ever happen for humankind, right?)
Anyway, force yourself to watch this film, all of it. (No fair chickening out by fast-forwarding to the flawed parts and only focusing on those. That's cheating. This feels like trying to force-feed a pill to a dog that doesn't get what medicine is. People just can't stare it in the face without chickening out and ducking out on the true implications of this film.)
Moore is simply sick of this: We are watching each other die in the gutter as we cling to our SUVs. The whole point of the film is to show that an additional one percent tax on our GDP to get medical care to everyone won't bankrupt you. By the way, I went to London last year, for the only time in my life, and, in case you didn't know it, millionaires and billionaires get along very, very well, even with a big welfare state. Surprise! You can still be very rich and still let your fellow citizens go to the doctor. In fact, the average household I saw in London was just way wealthier in terms of all the education, health care and housing than most of us. The whole four days I was there, I didn't see a single person living in the street, and I was not panhandled once. (See Union Square in San Francisco for a study in contrast.)
So give in and see the film and just pray to your God for strength, or whatever it takes, to just get over your selfishness long enough to see what we're permitting to happen.
Oh, how do I know all this? I ended up on permanent disability. How? No access to health care. So now, instead of paying for a few doctors appointments now and then, the government has to pay all of my bills all year. Wow, good going. That was some deep money saving there. Here's my prediction, if you take Moore's advice, what you'll find is that you save money.
For instance, a person who gets no health care until they have need of an emergency room, racks up ten times the bills as the average person who is insured. In my case, society thought it could be slick by denying me routine access to good doctors. Society thought it could be slick by not allowing me any sick days. It's the old corporate CEO mentality of just getting through this quarterly statement and making the books look good and getting a bonus, leaving the real bills for later folks to pay, and leaving the real disaster to the next CEO, and getting out in time to get another bonus before dumping the whole mess on everyone else.
Trust me, the government could have saved countless dollars by letting me have health care and sick days off. In fact, we already have a weird universal health care system that runs this way: Don't serve the poor till they go to the emergency room. Let the poor person run up a half-million dollar bill they can never pay. Turn around, (the hospitals do this), and then hit the state up for the money anyway. So we just go ahead and sneak that money in the back door through the state and county hospital reimbursement plans anyhow. So why not just pay for the guy to see a doctor a few times and get basic care for a few hundred bucks, rather than end up paying a half-million dollars to treat someone who can now probably never recover.
Okay, all you greedy Orange County people, time to face up to it. Sit down and watch the monster your free-market doctrines have created.
Mel C. Thompson.
Summary of Sicko (Special Edition)
Following on the heels of his Palm d'Or winning Fahrenheit 9/11 and his Oscar winning film Bowling for Columbine acclaimed filmmaker Michael 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. System Requirements:Run Time: 123 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/POLITICS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 796019807500 Manufacturer No: 80750SiCKO 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 Guant?namo 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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