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This is Michael Moore at his best. His documentary highlights the unhealthy relationship between the pharmaceutical industry, medical insurance companies and the medical profession in the USA where an unfortunate patient can be rendered bankrupt by crippling medical bills and compares the American system with the free healthcare in Canada, Britain, France and Cuba. A very telling film which should make anyone in the UK grateful for the NHS and ought to be required viewing in the USA where propaganda has conditioned people into thinking socialised medicine leads to communism. An excellent documentary.
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I saw this documentary when it was released at the cinema and was both proud and dismayed! Watching it again now in 2019 It is a dire, urgent warning against allowing any further privatisation of our precious NHS, and allowing it to become like the healthcare system in the USA. This sad fact is occurring as we speak under our current Conservative government. If you are in any doubt just how bad our NHS system will end up if allowed to be placed in the hands of companies you must watch this documentary! Profit should NEVER be placed before people!
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I do enjoy Michael's films. Always coming in from an alternative angle. This time the controversial, leftist but patriotic Moore takes apart the extreme inequalities of the American health system and compares them against its counterparts in Canada and Europe. His group's health venture to Cuba is particularly entertaining.
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Michael Moore's Sicko is a great documentary that everyone should see. It's not only about the 47 million Americans who don't have health insurance, but the 250 million who have/had health insurance and in spite of this their lives were ruined. It dispels a lot of the myths espoused by some in America such as long waiting lines, higher taxes and the doctors being paid close to nothing. It explains why HMOs were established and how their primary purpose is to deny claims. Advancement in these companies is based upon how many claims an employee denies and any claims that are actually paid out are seen as failures. He goes to countries like Canada, England, France and Cuba and talks to citizens of these countries to get their take on their country's health-care system. He also goes to hospitals and emergency rooms in these countries to get the take of the people there and when he ask "How much do you pay?", they all laugh at him. Moore sums up the premise of film when he says the rest of the western world practices "We" health-care while Americans practice "Me" health-care. Moore will use dramatic effect, its not a pure documentary, but entertainment too. He could have taken some americans to Mexico on a bus to use their cheap health care, but it was more dramatic to bring them bu boat to cuba.Read full review
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