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Sicko
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Anyone seen it?
I've watched it twice now and, obviously with it being a Michael Moore film, you have to take a lot of what he says with a pinch of salt but personally I think it's his most intelligent and thought-provoking film yet. Definitely a good way to spend two hours.
Quite frightening about how the American Healthcare system works really.
I've watched it twice now and, obviously with it being a Michael Moore film, you have to take a lot of what he says with a pinch of salt but personally I think it's his most intelligent and thought-provoking film yet. Definitely a good way to spend two hours.
Quite frightening about how the American Healthcare system works really.
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What? It's the best in the world, if only the NHS was as great
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I haven't seen Sicko yet, although I will because I'm interested in what Moor has to say on the subject. Given his previous films I suspect that it will praise the NHS and other state run services, I get the feeling that he's a socialist at heart, but he will completely avoid commenting on the pitfalls of these services...
Indeed, the NHS is the third largest employer in the world, can you imagine how a US wide NHS would work?
Yes he does sing the praises of socialised healthcare but at the same time makes the quite interesting argument that Americans have quite a few socialised systems and they seem to work pretty well (Police, Fire Dept., Postal Service, Libraries) so why shouldn't healthcare be socialised too? As I said, you have to try and see through the Moore blinkers but I do think it's his best film yet.