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2007 - Michael Moore
Post Date: 20th May, 2007 - 6:41pm / Post ID: #
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MICHAEL MOORE'S SICKO GETS AUDIENCE THUMBS-UP AT CANNES
The premiere of Sicko, Michael Moore's scathing documentary about the U.S. health-care system, received enthusiastic applause from an audience packing the 2,000-seat theatre at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/05/...nnes-sicko.html
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This film will never make it to the cinemas in my vicinity because of the content so did anyone see it?
QUOTE ANALYSIS: 'SICKO' NUMBERS MOSTLY ACCURATE; MORE CONTEXT NEEDED
Michael Moore's "Sicko," which opened nationwide Friday, is filled with horror stories of people who are deprived of medical service because they can't afford it or haven't been able to navigate the murky waters of managed care in the United States.
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Michael Moore's "Sicko," which opened nationwide Friday, is filled with horror stories of people who are deprived of medical service because they can't afford it or haven't been able to navigate the murky waters of managed care in the United States.
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No, haven't seen it and don't intend to. But here is a great review by MTV's Kurt Loder, who doesn't pull any punches.
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| Jun 29 2007 12:34 PM EDT 'Sicko': Heavily Doctored, By Kurt Loder Is Michael Moore's prescription worse than the disease? By Kurt Loder Michael Moore may see himself as working in the tradition of such crusading muckrakers of the last century as Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair - writers whose dedication to exposing corruption and social injustices played a part in sparking much-needed reforms. In his new movie, "Sicko," Moore focuses on the U.S. health-care industry - a juicy target - and he casts a shocking light on some of the people it's failed. ... Unfortunately, Moore is also a con man of a very brazen sort, and never more so than in this film. His cherry-picked facts, manipulative interviews (with lingering close-ups of distraught people breaking down in tears) and blithe assertions (how does he know 18 million people will die this year because they have no health insurance?) are so stacked that you can feel his whole argument sliding sideways as the picture unspools. |
Post Date: 1st Jul, 2007 - 11:03am / Post ID: #
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ANALYSIS: 'SICKO' NUMBERS MOSTLY ACCURATE; MORE CONTEXT NEEDED
Michael Moore's "Sicko," which opened nationwide Friday, is filled with horror stories of people who are deprived of medical service because they can't afford it or haven't been able to navigate the murky waters of managed care in the United States.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/06/28/sicko...heck/index.html
Post Date: 12th Aug, 2009 - 2:47am / Post ID: #
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Moore shows us how France, England, Canada and - yikes! - Cuba actually help sick people instead of letting them wither and die for lack of health insurance. Then he instructs us to loot those places for ideas. Anti-American? Hell, no. Moore argues that if another country builds a better car, we buy it. If it crafts a better wine, we drink it. Why not free universal health care? Ref. Source 5
Post Date: 17th Nov, 2010 - 7:24pm / Post ID: #
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"Push Michael Moore Off a Cliff": Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter Details How the Industry Attacked Michael Moore's Film Sicko
When Academy Award-winning film director Michael Moore announced he would be making a documentary about the American healthcare system in 2004, it put the health insurance industry on high alert. One person who immediately went on the offensive was Wendell Potter, who at the time was the chief spokesperson for insurance giant CIGNA. Last year, Potter became the industry's most prominent whistleblower. We speak to Potter about his role in attacking Michael Moore's film Sicko and the movement for a single-payer healthcare system. Ref. Source 9
Post Date: 23rd Nov, 2010 - 9:40pm / Post ID: #
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The Fear of Sicko: CIGNA Whistleblower Wendell Potter Apologizes to Michael Moore for PR Smear Campaign; Moore Says Industry Was Afraid Film Would Cause A 'Tipping Point' for Healthcare Reform
We host a joint interview with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and Wendell Potter, who was the head of corporate communications for the health insurance giant CIGNA when Moore's film, Sicko, was released in 2007. Potter left the company in 2008 and has since become the industry's most prominent whistleblower. In the interview, Potter apologizes for his role in the industry's attack on Moore and the film.
Moore accepted his apology, but acknowledged to Potter that, "I think we both know this is much larger then what was done to me or in the movie." Moore said that the industry was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to "stop a movie" because they were afraid it "could trigger a populist uprising against," what he called, a "sick system that will allow companies to profit off of us when we fall I'll." Ref. Source 3
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