RxPop.com Supports Michael Moore's SiCKO
SiCKO is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore that investigates the American health care system, focusing on its for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the non-universal and for-profit U.S. system with the universal and non-profit systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. SiCKO cites the United States as the only industrialized nation that does not provide universal health care to its citizens, highlights cases in which insured individuals were denied care, and condemns for-profit health care for maximizing profit at the expense of patient care.
SiCKO opened to positive reviews, but also generated criticism and controversy. Policy specialists, especially those on the political right, criticized the film for its overwhelmingly negative view of health care in the United States and what they charge to be an unbalanced positive portrayal of publicly funded health care in nations such as the United Kingdom and Canada.
SiCKO debuted in the U.S. on June 22, 2007, earning $4.6 million in 441 theatres and achieving the second highest opening weekend for a documentary, after Fahrenheit 9/11. A pirated copy of the film was leaked onto the Internet just prior to its release.
