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| Sicko (Special Edition) | 
| Director: Michael Moore
Actor: Michael Moore
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 123 minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WEID80750D
UPC: 796019807500
EAN: 0796019807500
ASIN: B000UNYJXQ
Theatrical Release Date: June 22, 2007
Release Date: November 6, 2007
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 05/20/2008 Rating: Pg13
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SiCKO is more like a controlled howl of protest than a documentary. Toning down the rhetoric of past efforts--no CEOs, congressmen, or celebrities were accosted in the making of this film--Michael Moore's latest provocation is just as heartfelt, if not more heartbreaking. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn't the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage has failed to meet their needs. He starts by speaking with patients who've been denied life-saving procedures, like chemotherapy, for the most spurious of reasons. Then he travels to Canada, England, and France to see if socialized medicine is as inefficient as U.S. politicians like to claim--especially those who receive funding from pharmaceutical companies. Moore finds quality care available to all, regardless as to income. He concludes with a stunt that made headlines when he assembles a group of 9/11 rescue workers suffering from a variety of afflictions. When Moore is informed that detainees at Guantanamo Bay--technically American soil--qualify for universal coverage, he and his companions travel to Cuba to get in on that action. It's a typically grandstanding move on Moore's part. And it proves remarkably effective when these altruistic individuals, who've either been denied treatment or forced to pay outrageous costs for their medication, experience a dramatically different system. Nine years in the making, SiCKO makes a persuasive case that it's time for America to catch up with the rest of the world. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Excellent November 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Many people find Michael Moore annoying and dislike his political point of view but this documentary is more about the people than anything else. Fact, millions don't have health coverage in one of the most riches countries in the world. Fact, people are dying while few get richer and richer and FACT, the goverment so far has done nothing to improve the situation thousands have to face every day with a lack of health insurance. Choosing between keeping your house or getting that urgent medical treatment is something that should never happen. This documentary is really touching because of the human stories. Although I honestly doubt prisoners in Guantanamo get the first class treatment depicted here. Good health and the best medical treatments are not a luxury only for the rich but a need and a right all americans should have. Well done Mr. Moore.
A Massive Indictment of Our Criminal Health-Care System November 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you vote "not helpful" on this particular review, please tell me why. If you think Moore exaggerated, then please read my own horror stories below.
No one should oppose National Health Insurance without first seeing Michael Moore's unrelenting line of horror stories about American health care--a mere selection of 25,000 stories.
But I will not cite examples of these stories. I'll give you some of my own. A doctor tried to talk me into a hernia operation. Coincidentally, I saw another doctor a week later. He checked me and said that I didn't have a hernia and that I should never go back to that doctor. Hello, in other words, I was going to pay for that doctor's swimming pool!
In the US the incentive for doctors is to perform more and more operations, not to keep people well (as in other countries).
My nephew went to see a find doctor at a major medical center, but the doctor refused to diagnose or treat my nephew. Actually, he was doing my nephew a favor because if he had tested him or treated him, he would not have been able to get long-term care insurance. He went out and got the insurance, and had to wait a year to go back to see the doctor! The waiting period!
I had to wait 90 days to get coverage with a new job. In the meantime, I was coughing all over my students.
Let us all agree to this American creed: No American should loose their home or life savings simply because they get sick. How can anyone disagree with that?
The American middle class had better wake up. Regardless of whether you have health insurance or not, you are only one or two diseases away from loosing our life savings and homes. National health insurance is the only answer, taking the best from the other countries that have it (and have a longer life expectancies--we rank 42).
Those who oppose national health insurance should do the honorable thing and turn down Medicare as a matter of principle. American cancer survival rates are higher, but note the following:
In response to an email that I sent, the Nation Cancer Institute said that "55.8 percent of all cancer cases are diagnosed in people 65 years and older." So Medicare has a big input in those survival rates. Probably even a greater impact in hip replacements. So the argument that government health insurance results in poor quality care is bogus.
Now quick, would you want to go to the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins Medical Center, or a major VA hospital? ANSWER: THE VA PERFORMS BETTING IN ALMOST ALL AREAS. My two cousins love it.
Buy "Sicko" and send it to all your friends and relatives November 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have been a fan of Michael Moore for a long time. This is one of his best works. We have a serious health care problem in America and he brings out the ugly truth in a humorous and thoughtful way. As one of the most developed countries in the world we should be ashamed we do not have universal health care.
 If you like silly exaggerations, you will like this. November 6, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Filled with many well produced exaggerations designed to make a point and not necessary the truth of the situation. While healthcare needs reform in the US, pointing to healthcare systems in other countries where their citizens come to the US for care if they can afford the cost is ridiculous. Anyone that's followed Michael Moore's work has learned to expect a certain amount of exaggeration in his films, but Sicko sets a new high bar for him. Net-Net: entertaining fiction presented as truth.
WOW !! Have we been screwed November 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The rich get richer and we take it in the shorts. This is one of the most informative videos that I have seen in a long time. The straw that broke the camels back was when a backward third world country has better medical facilities than in the U.S.A and takes care of our heroes with no questions asked when our country turns there back on them......so so sad it makes you sick to your stomach!!!!
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