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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.96 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 22 June, 2007 DVD Release : 06 November, 2007 |
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Sicko (Special Edition) description SiCKO 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 Guantánamo 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Politicians, Corporations get rich....the rest of us get sicker! |
| Michael Moore opened my eyes to a dilemma of which I was already somewhat aware. I have worked as a nurse for many years most of it in community nursing but have also worked in the insurance industry. I had no idea how politicians play so much a part in how and IF someone gets health care. While today I met a patient who had to pay over $300 for 20 pills one of the giant insurance company's CEOs is making over $1.6 billon yes BILLION dollars per year. If you haven't seen this, it is definitely a must see. Then make yourself aware of the bills currently before any Congressional session and do your part by contacting representatives and congressman so that this atrocity can be stopped. Universal Health Care is something to consider, but watch the movie, you will understand more of what I am trying to convey. | |
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