"It's being run like a war," Mr. Moore said. "I mean, we're in a battle with these corporations who want to maintain their position. They don't want to give an inch on this, and we're out to upset the apple cart." Full Story »
Posted by David Agnew
As one critic has written, "Regardless of whether any particular claim in "Sicko" is true, no one doubts that lots of insured and uninsured Americans face health-care crises. So far, Moore is master of the obvious. We all hate insurance companies and red tape, and we all want to improve the system." Where do we go from here? To France, Britain and Canada, says Moore, who presents each of them as a health-care paradise. And yet, each of the three countries are moving away from the way in which Moore portrays them. This article quotes approvingly of Moore's ambition to use his movie to advance his agenda of destroying the nation's existing health care system, and presumably replace it with one similar to that in Cuba.
