Quickie: Sicko
Sicko (2007)–***1/2
Quickie Review
Activist/filmmaker Michael Moore offers up stories from Americans whose interactions with the health insurance industry are..um…less than heartwarming. Poignant, disturbing and generally enlightening Moore’s Sicko is his least volatile film to date and his most affecting since Roger & Me. Citing deadly encounters with HMOs and other health insurance company tactics to maximize profit, Moore effortlessly connects the dots between America’s failing health and a rogue industry. The grand finale gimmick (taking 9/11 rescue workers to Guantanamo Bay to get the same health care as the “evil doers”) seems trivial when one rescue worker breaks down in a Cuban pharmacy after paying 5 cents for a prescription that costs $120 in the States. The demystifying of government-sponsored health care in Canada, Cuba, the United Kingdom and France is essential viewing.
Roger & Me
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