Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS EAN: 0796019807500 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Weinstein Company Manufacturer: Weinstein Company Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Weinstein Company Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 06, 2007 Running Time: 123 minutes Sales Rank: 135 Studio: Weinstein Company Theatrical Release Date: June 22, 2007
Product Description: 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: 80750
Amazon.com: 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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Rating: - Sicko delivers the truth
If an impoverished nation like Cuba can have free, universal health care, why can't the United States?? How many people have to die? Our average life expectancy is lower than many other countries. Does the governement just not care, or are our lawmakers too deep in the pockets of health care lobbyists? Look around you. Someone you know can't afford to get sick. It's time to do something about it, and it starts from the top up. Election 2008!
Rating: - An important expose on our sorry state of (accessible) medical care
As one of the newly uninsured in the US (I have VA medical coverage which is NOT considered 'credible coverage'by insurance companies!) I cannot locate a policy which I can afford and which affords me coverage for so called pre-existing conditions.
I was furious when I realized the inmates in Guantanamo, US prisons and our Congress have better insurance than the average American citizen! The most powerful and industrialized country in the world and we do not take care of our own. Moore hit the nail on the head with this one!
Rating: - Do all French live like this?
Please don't get me wrong. I agree with Moore's points 100% regarding the state of health insurance and the power pharma companies exploitat in the United States. As a matter of fact I agree with pretty much all of his points he makes in whatever TV show or documentary he's entertaining us with. Unfortunately he often bends the truth a bit too much to make for a believable case and Sicko is no different.
Moore is once again far fetching with some of his evidence. I grew up in Western Europe. And if you think that the French middle class couple portrayed in the documentary is your typical French family you might want to dig a bit deeper. I suggest you look into why cars were burning in a dozen French cities two years ago and you will find out about the turmoils France is really going through in terms of "social well being for all". It isn't by far the pretty picture Moore is painting here.
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Rating: - Many of us have lived through this, we know the truth
So I had a bit of a medical insurance fiasco a few years back, in that I was self-employed and in a state that had few patient protections. So when I tried to get independent insurance, and I had the money to pay, I was shut out of the system. One large company decided I was a "medical risk" and I couldn't get insurance from any company no matter what I tried. An insurance broker actually used the term blacklisted to describe my situation! I eventually was able to get emergency hospital only coverage that I nicknamed "hit by a truck" insurance. My situation changed when I broke down and got a corporate job that had a group plan, suddenly the same company that had shut me out, granted me insurance!
I only explain my situation because I know from FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE how horribly our medical system can be. I didn't read propaganda on a website or a book, I lived being shafted by a corporate giant. ... Read More
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