Sicko
[DVD]

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The scourge of the American right, award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore returns with a documentary focussing on the US health care system. Moore attempts to highlight the contradictions in a system that, despite costing more per person than any other in the world, ranks last among developed countries. As well as taking a swipe at the wholly for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Moore compares and contrasts health provision around the globe, including Canada, Britain and France. FROM AMAZON.CO.UK Michael Moore’s latest documentary may see him moving his sights away from the purely political arena, yet he loses none of his bite in the process. And with Sicko, a slanted, at-times devastating attack on the American health care system, he’s made one of his best films. The problem, of course, for a UK audience is that it’s a very American system that Moore is attacking in Sicko. He’s out to highlight the number of people with health insurance who are getting perfectly legitimate claims turned away, as the companies concerned get fat off the profits. But there is a British angle, as Moore presents a surprisingly idyllic take on Britain’s own health service, that does sit in the midst of the film’s flabby middle section. Yet when Moore points Sicko at the very people the system is letting down, his skills very much come to the fore. He puts forward passionate, partisan arguments with an incendiary style that few working American documentary makes can come close to matching, and it makes Sicko compulsive viewing. Whether you agree with the man’s politics or not, his films are provocative, very well made and hard not to admire. Sicko is no exception. --Jon Foster

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