Credited cast: | |||
Michael Moore | ... | Self | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Tucker Albrizzi | ... | Self | |
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Tony Benn | ... | Self |
George W. Bush | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Reggie Cervantes | ... | Self |
Bill Clinton | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Hillary Clinton | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Hillary Rodham Clinton) | |
Billy Crystal | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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John Graham | ... | Self |
Aleida Guevara | ... | Self | |
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William Maher | ... | Self |
Richard Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Patrick Pedraja | ... | Self |
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Linda Peeno | ... | Self |
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?" Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I've seen a lot of movies that either make fun or try to exemplify American stupidity, but none convinced me of it unless I've seen Sicko. How can you people put up with this?! The medical system portrayed in this film is worst than here in Romania!
Basically, it tells about the medical system being bought and used by insurance companies to trick people into paying huge sums of money for any medical care, regardless of them having a medical insurance or not. Then there are examples of the Canadian, French, British and Cuban health care systems, which are, as I think they should be, free and of high quality.
And the logic is very simple, even if one chooses to disregard the highly emotional examples presented by Moore: people who win money from not taking care of you will not take care of you.
Take care!