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Inside "Sicko": The Cuba Trip [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 4:57 AM on June 12, 2007.


In a sneak peek at "Sicko" broadcast on "Oprah", we see some politically charged footage of how the Bush Administration turned their back on 9/11 rescue workers.
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While many pundits believe Sicko will be responsible for opening up debate on health care, and I agree, I also think it will be seriously harmful to Rudy Giuliani, whether he gets the Republican nomination or not. I say this because the story of the 9/11 workers haunts him now and it will completely obliterate him once more Americans have a specific face and story to attach to the trauma. Anyway, that's the power of film I suppose. I can definitely do without Moore overly self-righteous narration sometimes, but his films are so terrific and rabble-rousing that I can almost always look past it. Check out the video to your right and weigh in yourself on how the movie looks to you.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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"The evildoers?"
Posted by: SayBlade on Jun 12, 2007 7:12 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Moore has convicted the alleged terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay even before they have been given a proper trial. The dismissal of charges against Omar Khadr is evidence.

That said, Moore drives the point home that there are huge inequalities that exist in the US health care system.

While there are some factual inaccuracies in Moore's film, The Star's Thomas Walkom recognises:

"Moore is making a film for Americans. And what he is telling his compatriots is very simple and very true: that America's refusal to embrace some kind of universal health care system makes absolutely no sense."

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What's the problem?
Posted by: Lincoln fan on Jun 12, 2007 8:04 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Lack of universal single payer healthcare is an important issue. But it's only a symptom of the big issue. I read somewhere that 70% of voters are in favor of universal single payer health care. Why don't we have it? The answer is that our government doesn't represent the voters. As long as the corporate establishment is in control of the ourgovernment, we, the people, will live under the original American tyranny of "taxation without representation".

We will not be free until we stop the legal bribery by industries that contribute to both parties' campaigns. Defense, pharmaceutical, banking, credit, insurance and other industries finance both parties; they control the government. Our elections are a sham. These bribes keep the corporatocracy in power so they can't be declared illegal while the establishment controls our government. We can vote the Republicans out, we can impeach them and throw them in jail. but we can't vote the corporatocracy out, we can't impeach them, and we can't throw them in jail. When the Democrats are elected the establishment will still run our government. We can't solve this problem with elections.

I believe that the only practicable way to solve this problem is to have a massive grassroots movement to put the peoples' issues on the platforms of both parties before the election.
Bob Reichenbach,
Director, The Lincoln Initiative.

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great title
Posted by: suki on Jun 12, 2007 9:09 AM   
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Can't help it. The title alone is enough to bring attention to medical care in this country (or lack thereof). Taking a boat into Gitmo waters - GREAT! Leave it to Moore to find an angle that will give us an idea of what a mess this administration had made of our country post 911.

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Sometimes M. Moore Frustrates Me....
Posted by: CatDad on Jun 12, 2007 10:10 AM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I sometimes wonder: Do M. Moore's films ever achieve anything other than being "preaching to the choir," self-congratulatory love-fests for progressives/liberals?

"Roger & Me" decried plant closings and de-industrialization in Flint, MI in the late 80s...yet this trend has exploded since then. Since "Bowling for Columbine," the NRA has become unimaginably powerful and has bounced back from its dark days of the late 90s....Even Harry Reid spoke the NRA party line after the VA Tech Shootings. Bush still won in spite of "Fahrenheit 9-11."

It is so very critical to reform health care and to gain coverage for ALL Americans...regardless of ability to pay for it and/or pre-existing health conditions. I wonder if his new movie will have any positive effect in helping us bring about change....or will it needlessly turn the issue of universal health care into a Left vs. Right screaming match by antics such as taking people to Cuba for health care.

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play on famous movie line
Posted by: onesun on Jun 12, 2007 10:11 AM   
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I'd like to hang out at Guantanamo and eat breakfast with my enemies just to get within 100 yards of that healthcare.

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» RE: play on famous movie line Posted by: SALLY EVANS
wow
Posted by: axjxhx on Jun 13, 2007 10:09 AM   
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i have to say, i have known that the rescue workers for 9/11/01 cleanup were suffering from respitory illnesses, but actually SEEING them, their faces, in such painful context...it makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. it really brings their suffering into the light....very clearly.
over and over again it is said that these people should be treated as heroes, but it is reality that they have been tossed aside for money & power -making schemes.....i read about this and hear about this, but NOTHING HAS CHANGED. why then, if so many people are aware of the injustice of the health care system, why has it only gotten worse? WHY ON EARTH ARE WE LETTING POLITICIANS DICTATE WHO SEES THE MEDICINE MAN/WOMAN?

we need to start asking some really important questions, nevermind the answers. the answers will reveal themselves after we stop complying with all the policies and laws and legislature being flung around. if we can agree that politicians no longer respresent the true needs & wishes of the voters, then we need to take our country back from these hijackers!

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Michael Moore
Posted by: willymack on Jun 13, 2007 12:10 PM   
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Mr. Moore will ALWAYS have his critics, and you can bet they'll be the ones most threatened by his exposure of the corruption and greed running rampant in Washington and elsewhere. He may be a little cerebral at times for the less mentally adroit, but there's absolutely no doubt in my mind of his humanitarian efforts and advocacy of the less fortunate. For those who've forgotton, that's what good citizenship is all about.

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Moore's VALUE is greater
Posted by: Raymond Emerson on Jun 15, 2007 12:34 PM   
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than we realize. I now regularly meet 50 year olds who privately admit that the last time they read a book was in highschool. How else do you educate these people?

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