Sicko Special Edition

Sicko Special Edition

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Genre: Documentary
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 8-JAN-2008
Media Type: DVD

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Moore for President 2012!! He knows what is best for our country!
I am so honored to have Michael Moore as my political party!! Forget left and right, democrat or republican, I am 100% a Michael Moore’er!!!

Moore knows what is best for our country!!! Making $$$$$ from DVDS about Columbine, 9/11, health care, and the like… riding around in private jets, and owning Halliburton stocks proves that he cares about the average American and sticks to his beliefs.

Heck, I even dropped out of my history and economics classes because I felt Michael Moore knows about everything in life and he is my God!.. I buy all his DVDs to ensure that he has enough money to buy his corporate jets…!!

Moore for president 2012!!!

5 Stars THIS IS THE REAL AND HIDDEN SIDE OF AMERICA
THIS IS THE REAL AND HIDDEN SIDE OF AMERICA. What more additional evidence or explanations do people possibly need to get this fact that we have a major problem here? People are neglected and thrown on the street because their insurance premiums aren’t high enough or just cannot afford to pay health insurance. I am worried that it will take hundreds of millions of people bankrupt and out on the street just because they cannot afford health insurance (not mortgage, car loans, educational loans, credit card debt) to demand REAL CHANGE.

Some main things you have to keep in mind

(1) The Universal Health Care is NOT FREE as Moore keeps advocating.

(2) There are also many people who are discontent with European-style universal health care.

Reforming medical industries is not possible unless we reform our monetary policy, fiscal policy, foreign policy, and civil liberty policy. They all go hand-in-hand. We have cut our wasteful spending on military budgets, foreign aids, drug wars, welfare, social security, education, subsidies, tax breaks, lobbying, etc.

There are many alternatives to what we have right now and what they have in Europe. One alternative is to have a single-payer medical insurance system as everyone knows. The other is to give people tax credit to cover their medical insurance. The third option is a hybrid of the two.

People are deluded in that they believe America is a free country. They are waking up slowly, but it will take more than anything we have ever experienced to turn this nation around.

1 Star FATSO
A fatso who is ten calories away from a coronary is running… walking around criticizing the health care system. Am I the only one who sees the stupidity in this?

5 Stars This is a GREAT FILM and should be required viewing in school.
I spent an afternoon surfing and researching various ‘facts’ Mr. Moore presented in the film … ALL of his assertions were found to be true.

We pay TWICE what many other countries pay for health care …

and THEY have better care, better health, and HAPPIER people.

Here in the US we are being fleeced by the Medical Industry and the

Lawyers and the Insurance Industry.

We need to take our country back.

4 Stars 4.5 Stars for Sicko
Essentially, this film highlights the greed that controls healthcare in the United States and the system’s failings, while pointing out that other countries are providing healthcare for their people that is patient-oriented rather than profit-oriented. The film is lacking in statistics, but does its job in bringing a very important issue to the attention of thousands (if not millions) of viewers.

Many Americans tend to be short-sighted in opposing “socialized” medicine as a knee-jerk reaction to something they see as evil on the idea that it takes away their rights or availability to the best doctors. Most of us only have access to the best medical care if we have the right health insurance coverage and/or happen to be located near a major city with a large selection of hospitals. I find it hard to believe that if the United States were to enact some form of socialized medicine that you still wouldn’t be able to find specialists with private practices, if you were unhappy with the local health facility. The major difference would be that, with socialized medicine in the U.S., the average American who has worked all his/her life would probably not have to face lack of medical treatment, homelessness and/or bankruptcy when faced with a debilitating illness that leaves them unable to work and without health insurance.

I will mention one of the film’s highlights, as I appreciate the fact that Michael Moore always takes things to an extreme to get his point across. Taking people in need of medical care to Cuba to demand healthcare for them that is equal to that which terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay are receiving was absolutely inspired. (I didn’t think it could get any better than when Michael tried to return bullets to KMart that were inside the surviving Columbine victims or when he asked members of Congress to enlist their own children in the military in his previous films.)

Thank you, Michael, for making this film! I hope it motivates everyone in the U.S. who views it to demand the right to patient-oriented, accessible and affordable healthcare for all.

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