Michael Moore Gets Ready to Rumble

by ryan | May 18, 2007 at 09:02 am

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He’s at it again – Michael Moore is stirring up the pot of national dialogue with his new movie Sicko. Moore is coming out with a new movie exposing the inadequacies of the American healthcare system and attacking the people who have created it. In his by now familiar style, Moore combines documentary techniques with the shock value content Americans find so dear. In the movie, Moore turns to Canada as the ideal health-care system. I guess he's never waited six months for surgery.

The movie, screened for TIME, is double-barreled Moore, a mix of familiar numbers (47 million uninsured Americans, the ever rising cost of care) and chilling moments (the 18-month-old baby who dies of a seizure when she’s denied emergency-room access, the husband and father with kidney cancer whose insurer won’t pay for a bone-marrow transplant).