Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in... (Full plot summary below)
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Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, "Who are we?
Leave your thoughts about Sicko.
| CinemaBlend.comJoshua TylerIn between the laughter and the tears, it's an intensely effective, gut-wrenching experience. |
| Manhattan Movie MagazineMarlow SternPrepare to laugh (nervously), cry and be outraged. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawMr Moore's excellent new film is a wakeup call. |
| Echo MagazineNeil CohenNobody with a heart and soul could leave unchanged after seeing this scalpel-sharp documentary...I have three words of advice this summer: Seek out Sicko! |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesWho could be proud of a nation that treats its people this way? |
| Kaplan vs. KaplanJeanne KaplanMichael Moore has given us an evenhanded, insightful look into the mess known as health care in this country. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea ChaseNothing like a little political theater to rouse the rabble and to make the indignation righteous. There is no better master of such showmanship than Michael Moore |
| AALBC.comKam WilliamsExposes the U.S. as a very dangerous place to be any combination of poor, sick and old and suggests that the AMA ought to consider changing its Hippocratic oath from 'First, do no harm,' to 'First, check the wallet.' |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSicko will scare people, and it probably should. |
| Sympatico.caAngela BaldassarreEven though documentarian Michael Moore is pretty much preaching to the Canadian converted, Sicko is a biting and funny indictment of the U.S. healthcare system. |
