For Filmmaker, 'Sicko' Is a Jumping-Off Point for Health Care Change

"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 »

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Patricia Blochowiak
3.7
by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

While the topic is both of interest and extremely important if we are to regain our stature as a nation, this story talks very little about the subject matter presented on the film and limits itself to the politics of support for or opposition to the film and to single-payer health care coverage. I don't think that this article says much of substance about the problems with our health care system and the reasons it should be changed that are the topic of the film. It might be interesting to read this review along with Jonathan Cohn's book, Sick.

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