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Moore Takes ‘Sicko’ to Sacramento

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Posted on Jun 9, 2007
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Taking his show on the road: Michael Moore (pictured at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival) is no stranger to controversy and, with “Sicko,” he seems ready to stir up some more.

Director Michael Moore will use his new documentary “Sicko” as an advocacy tool for healthcare reform on June 12, when he will testify before the California State Legislature in Sacramento about his film—a scathing critique of the U.S. healthcare system.  Moore will also join nurses’ and doctors’ activist groups, as well as state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, for a rally at the state Capitol.


From the press release at MichaelMoore.com:

[California Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Ann] DeMoro, who attended a private screening in New York, notes that “SiCKO” is “not just an indictment of an indefensible healthcare industry in the U.S. It’s a rejoinder for those who think we can fix the soulless monster by tinkering with an unconscionable system that puts us further in thrall to those who created the crisis.”

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By loveinatub, June 11, 2007 at 1:16 pm Link to this comment

Can’t writeit any better myself!  Thank you!


<How many times can this guy be spot on and still be brushed aside as a lunatic by mainstream media? The president and vice president of the United States of America have clearly demonstrated their propensity towards lunacy and Olympic level prevarication but are still given the utmost respect by media. When Moore called George Bush “the fictitious president” he was pounced upon as an evildoer. But Michael Moore has been thoroughly vindicated in that description of Mr. Bush. The obvious problem is that the United States has not only a fictitious president but also a fictitious media to cover for him.>

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By Herk, June 10, 2007 at 7:27 pm Link to this comment

Jim C wrote in #76805:

“Herk , whatever you may think of Cuba their healthcare has always been excellent”

I’ve had very mixed feelings about Cuba - and certainly have never believed all the propaganda. They have a lot to be proud of.

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By Mudwollow, June 10, 2007 at 1:41 pm Link to this comment

Comment #76663 by THOMAS BILLIS is precisely correct.

How many times can this guy be spot on and still be brushed aside as a lunatic by mainstream media? The president and vice president of the United States of America have clearly demonstrated their propensity towards lunacy and Olympic level prevarication but are still given the utmost respect by media. When Moore called George Bush “the fictitious president” he was pounced upon as an evildoer. But Michael Moore has been thoroughly vindicated in that description of Mr. Bush. The obvious problem is that the United States has not only a fictitious president but also a fictitious media to cover for him.

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By Dale Headley, June 10, 2007 at 11:44 am Link to this comment
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Okay “dittoheads”, let’s hear it.  Let’s hear you agree with Rush when, on Wednesday,  he portrays the film as “unpatriotic”, because it demeans the “best health care system in the world.”  Let’s hear those “Ditto, Rush”‘s when he claims, with no evidence whatsoever (as usual), that Moore is a shill for the ambulance-chasing lawyers.  Let’s hear you bow down before the thrice-divorced bloated one when he (with a smuggled Cuban cigar in his mouth) charges Moore with coddling a communist dictator.  Let’s hear you praise the dopehead when he calls the California Nurse’s Association a bunch of liberal, commie-pinko activists.  But Rush should be advised:  Arnold won’t make that mistake again.
  Actually, Michael Moore is one of this country’s true heroes.  Despite constant demonization and death threats, he stands up for what he (and most
Americans) believe. 
  But, if Bush dares have Moore arrested for visiting Cuba’s health care system, which is regarded all over the world as one of the best, I think most Americans will be outraged.  Bush doesn’t want Americans to know that most other countries have free, high quality health care for everyone.  He doesn’t want them to know that the reason drugs cost so much more in the U.S. than elsewhere is that the pharmaceutical industry has a stranglehold on our government.  Bush doesn’t want you know he’s lying through his teeth when he says that the reason drugs from Canada are banned in the U.S. is because of questionable quality, even though they are EXACTLY the same drugs, manufactured by EXACTLY the same AMERICAN companies.
  Speaking of Bush lying, now that we all know that Moore told the truth when he said that George Bush lied about Iraq, maybe “Fahrenheit 911” should be re-released.

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By GW=MCHammered, June 10, 2007 at 8:46 am Link to this comment
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“Sicko” endorsed by the Physicians For A National Health Program:
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2007/may/michael_moore_to_tes.php

“In this insanity of economics of health care, the patient always loses.”
~Peter Van Etten, President, Stanford Health Services

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By Jim C, June 10, 2007 at 8:08 am Link to this comment
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Herk , whatever you may think of Cuba their healthcare has always been excellent .

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By QuyTran, June 9, 2007 at 7:14 pm Link to this comment

We have been ripped off by the so-called health care world which includes MDs, Pharmacists, pharmaceutic organizations….

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By Herk, June 9, 2007 at 6:13 pm Link to this comment

It used to be said that in order to find health care as bad as we have here in the U.S, you had to go to a country like Cuba.

Wrong again.

Now, thanks to Medicare Part D, pharmacists are deciding that patients do not need the drugs prescribed for them by their doctors. We used to call that practicing medicine without a license. Now it’s business as usual.

There’s a donut hole in our country called Congress.

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By THOMAS BILLIS, June 9, 2007 at 2:47 pm Link to this comment
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Why listen to someone who has been right on every topic he has attacked?I can hear it now that left wing wacko is at again first he attacked General Motors and their disdain for the America worker,then he went after the role of guns in American society and of course his biggest mistake that the Iraq war was a tragedy of epic proportions.We have in our society people who have it right and are not given the forum they deserve.Michael Moore is one of those people.Let us hope we as Americans have learned our lesson and are willing to listen with an open mind to the Michael Moore’s among us.

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