Micheal Moore's Sicko?

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Micheal Moore's Sicko

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I couldnt find any threads about the film, sorry in advance if there are/were

June 29, in theatres, do you plan on seeing it?

I for one am looking forward to it. I've seen a few interviews with Moore and think this movie may be the wake up call America needs, or it could go in a totally opposite direction and be a flop that few people see. Either way, it does deal with a problem. My mother was watching Oprah (no flames, lol) a few weeks ago and Moore was on, so I decided to watch. In that interview, Moore shared a few individual people's story. One woman, who was diagnosed with brain cancer, i believe it was, could not get coverage for a new treatment that didnt involve chemotherapy. It was revealed she died a year later.
But another thing that shocks me is that how volenteers during 9/11 could not get help for many physical and respiration problems they developed while working near the pile of rubble Twin Towers.

thoughts/comments

Answer 1

Well as much as I don't really care for Moore this film has piqued my interest. It looks like it could be good so I'm going to see it.

Answer 2

Why is it that most Americans have this aversion of anything that is fair to the vast majority or call it socialization when they don't understand the meaning of the word, I think they still have this ridiculous fear of being taken over by the Russians or something.

America is a great country but seems to have a blinkered un -educated veiw of the outside world, someone has said it will only benefit the poor and the other 85% will not benefit, that is a typical example of the inability or should I say blissful ignorance of the reality , most Americans are in fact not rich and struggle to pay health insurance or fear losing what assets they have to stay healthy and alive, Yes I know that people who live in countries with a national healthcare system whinge and moan about having to wait for a non emergency operation, but if you asked them to pay extortionate insurance premiums or sell their assets to pay for an operation, they would look at you with total dis-belief and tell you to go to hell!!!

I don't really care that much for Micheal Moore either, but I have to say his comments are what most people in this Cloud Cuckoo land don't want to hear, truth and reality being two of them.

Answer 3

I am keeping my quarter - okay $9.
I watched 2 interviews with the doctors he used in Cuba.
He said the film was a complete work of fiction. He said
the hospitals & health care systems in Cuba loses thousnads of people a year while they wait for care. The hospitals are unstaffed, often unsanitary & doctors are in really short supply. He said Micheal Moore cut the real story to make it say what he wanted. You can always get someone to say what you want them to but you can not change the facts. If every new unproven treatments were allowed not only would people die from treatments that do not work but insurance rates would go up 10 times the amount now. In Star Trek Spock said it best "The good of the many out weigh the good of the one". Well Micheal Moore outweighs everyone & is a big fat liar too. The USA still has more foreigners come to the US for medical care than any other country & Americans only leave for sex change operations & cheap Canadian prescriptions.

Answer 4

An activist like Michael Moore can take any subject and use a few examples to make it seem like the entire subject conforms to their view. Someone with the opposite viewpoint could make an equally compelling argument showing that the US health care system never makes a mistake and everyone receives great care and leaves happy.

Answer 5

I will go see it. Something has to be done about health care in this country. The cost of health care has doubled in the last 5-6 years. Benefits go down while profits sky rocket. In the state I live in one in every 4 people do not have health coverage. My family is covered under a small group plan. The cost is nearly $1000 a month. That doesn't even include the cost for the employee. There are a lot of people in the U.S. that don't make $12,000 a year and I am paying that much in health insurance premiums. That is ridiculous.

Answer 6

I would be skeptical of the paricular hospital Micheal Moore was *allowed* to film in. The cuban government very tightly controls its the press inside Cuba, and it is *my *opinion the images Mr. Moore was allowed to film where the very best case scenarios. When it comes to Moore's films, I personally will only watch with helathy skeptiscism and research the "facts" presented before jumping to conclusions. jmo

Answer 7

I watched this on the internet and I plan on watching it in the theaters when it comes out. Excellent job by Moore!! It starts off a bit slow but picks up nicely. To those idiots who say it's fabricated, I say REALLY? Then why don't the companies and the people he mentions sue him for slander? You know why they don't? Cause in a court of law, you have to PROVE that what he says is not true. However no-one sues him cause it IS true!! To those idiots who don't want "socialized" medicine, I say fine, keep your private insurance, let us have a system like Canada's and you can keep your American system!! It wouldn't be fair to make anyone join who doesn't want to!! To those who say, look at all those Canadians coming to the U.S. for treatment, I say to them, guess who pays when they come here for treatment: The Canadian Government!! LOL Get over yourselves, we will have a similar system here in the U.S. one day!!

Answer 8

The richest country in the world allowed a woman with perforated intestines to writhe around in pain for 45 minutes and die in an LA hospital emergency room. Could socialized medicine be improved upon? Absolutely. Socialized medicine may not be the panacea we are looking for, but why can't we take the best of what the rest of the world is doing and take out the things that doesn't work? We as a country spend more that ANY other country in the world but yet we have uninsured people. Something is wrong with that.

Answer 9

Moore's films have been very accurate and facts are cautiously presented. It's good to get some honest information that doesn't go through mass media filters.

Mass media sources lose most important stories that would have been harmful to monied interests. Health care is a disgrace for the vast majority of Americans. Our country is ranked 37th.

Another very important unreported story is found under the query:

"PEAK OIL"

Bill Moyer and Michael Moore seem to be two of the few honest journalists.

Answer 10

Yes, I plan on seeing it. While I am opposed to many of Moore's views I can't help but admire his movies and his books. I like them-he is right about many of America's problems but I don't necessarily agree with his solutions to these problems.

Answer 11

I plan to see it in theaters, maybe multiple times. No good reason, really, other than the fanatical hatred lowbrows have for him. I feel that every time I buy a Moore ticket, a Rush fan gets his anger-jollies off....