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Home Front: Culture Wars
Moore's 'Sicko' Opens in D.C.
2007-06-21
Filmmaker Michael Moore's wish list for the 2008 presidential campaign includes a candidacy by Al Gore and truly universal health care plans from the current crop of Democratic candidates.

The liberal documentary maker, in Washington for the screening of his latest autobiographical film "Sicko," isn't endorsing anyone just yet. He's hoping Gore, the 2000 Democratic nominee, can be drawn into the race.
Several of us agree on that, but only as an independent.
"He's right on the health care issue," he said Wednesday night. "He's right on the environment and he was right on the war." At least one Democratic presidential candidate, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, attended the showing along with several other members of Congress at the Uptown Theatre in Washington.

Moore said Democratic health care plans either lack specifics or fall short of his ideal. "What I've seen I don't like," he said. "So I'm waiting, like many Americans."
Maybe Mikey should run.
Moore said the plan offered by candidate John Edwards - which is both detailed and far-reaching - "is not good because it supports putting our tax dollars into private, profit-making companies.

Barack Obama "hasn't given us a specific enough plan," he said, adding: Hillary Clinton "has to come forward with a plan."

His advice to the New York senator: "She needs to apologize for her votes for the war and she needs to say that she will not take money from the health industry and in fact support universal health care for everyone that does not involve the private profit making companies."

"Sicko" highlights the struggles of ordinary Americans - some with insurance coverage, others without - as they navigate the health care system. Moore compares the system with those of Canada, France and Britain, which have government-run programs. "This has been a difficult film to make because we're dealing with a lot of people who are sick and a lot of people who have died, and I don't want this system to kill any more of my fellow Americans," he said.
Posted by:Steve

#9  Beware a Marine waxing poetical. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-06-21 23:38  

#8  moore is just a rotund pied-piper leading masses of willfully ignorant moore-ons down the yellow brick road of delusions.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2007-06-21 22:02  

#7  "Sicko" isn't an autobiography?

I've had "socialized" medicine for the last 40 years, and it's not great. I have to wait three weeks to a month to see a physician's assistant, who then can give me a referral - sometime within the next two months - to see a specialist that can actually do something worthwhile. The only way to get seen immediately is to be sick enough to go to the emergency room, and even then it's a 4-hour or more wait (unless what you have is "life-threatening" - then you get seen more or less immediately). The military medical system, with all its problems, is still far better than the British or Canadian "Single-payer" or nationalized health service. Mickey moore needs to have both his kneecaps broken - repeatedly - and forced to use the British or Canadian system of "managed" (read - rationed) care for treatment. His kneecaps will "heal" before he's ever seen the first time.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-06-21 21:16  

#6  Reports say that he praises Cuban medicine, without mentioning the fact that their system treats many less ailments that the US system. So who really gets almost universal coverage?
Posted by: McZoid   2007-06-21 20:23  

#5  

So when does "Mr Sicko" have his coronary bypass?
Posted by: BigEd   2007-06-21 15:00  

#4  Howdy! Well done Mr. Moore. Way to go! I also urge everyone to go to his website www.michaelmoore.com and just read the personal letters of just how "pissed off" the American soldiers in Iraq are at those people in the U.S.A. who support the Iraq war (hint...hint).

I'd also like to comment on yesterday's article about sewage flowing down the isles of a Continental Jet while on a Trans-Atlantic flight, especially on the comment Mr. Brock made about the incident.

Mr. Brock said, "I've never felt so offended in all my life. I felt like i had been physically abused and neglected. I was forced to sit next to human excrement for seven hours,"

But Mr. Brock, surely you must be knowing that as a pagan/polytheist, you don't use water to clean your excrement.

And surely you must be knowing that as a barbarian, you must have dry excrement sticking on your butt nearly 14 hours a day. So why are you complaining?

"To be told that we were supposed to monitor what comes out the other end of us was insulting," said Brock

But Mr. Brock "tis hypocrisy!" I mean you never monitor the feces that constantly sticks on your underwear everyday!

By the way, why don't you place a peeled orange in your underwear to smell good as your pagan forefathers did.

NOW HERE IS THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION:

Q. How did a nation that doesn't even know how to clean potty send a man to the moon?
Posted by: Steve Austin   2007-06-21 14:58  

#3  Is moore-on really saying the UK system of treatment rationing is better?

What a fool.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2007-06-21 12:28  

#2  "This has been a difficult film to make because we're dealing with a lot of people who are sick and a lot of people who have died..."

Mikey... is this a snuff film, then?
Posted by: eLarson   2007-06-21 10:44  

#1  Here's a plan, Mike. How about nobody has to pay to see your piece of shit movie? I mean, why support those evil profit making movie companies?
Fight Big Celluloid!
Posted by: tu3031   2007-06-21 09:17  

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