Moore talks health care crisis.
By on May 26th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Moore talks health care crisis.
Michael Moore yesterday gave his first live interview in over two years with HBO’s Bill Maher, discussing his new film on the U.S. health care industry, Sicko. Watch it:
You can watch the new trailer for Sicko HERE.
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Bravo to Michael Moore and I intend to watch his documentary when it gets released next month.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:36 pmMichael Snore
May 26th, 2007 at 5:38 pm15 minute standing novation in Cannes you can see additional snippets at his site – THE GUYS A HERO
Moore for President
May 26th, 2007 at 5:54 pmOnly Industrialized nation with no Free health care – - WOW
May 26th, 2007 at 5:56 pmMr. President … Hold your sad self!
May 26th, 2007 at 5:57 pmMichael..we shall see… Sounds Good.
Tosses ßill a ßanana!
Moore to debut ‘Sicko’ in Michigan
May 26, 2007
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELLAIRE, Mich. — Michael Moore says he’s planning an unofficial North American premiere of his documentary “Sicko” in Michigan to benefit the Antrim County Democratic Party.
The critical account of the U.S. health care industry, which was the talk of the Cannes Film Festival, will be shown June 16 in Bellaire, about 210 miles northwest of Detroit.
“Sicko” is scheduled to open in the U.S. on June 29.
“I’m doing this at my wife’s request,” Moore said. “Everyone is invited.”
The Flint native’s wife, Kathleen Glynn, is vice-chairwoman of the Antrim County Democratic Party and executive producer of the documentary.
Moore, who is being investigated by the U.S. Treasury Department for traveling to Cuba for one of the segments in the film, said he agreed to the benefit partly because the organization regularly holds events to help the needy.
“I’d be glad to do a screening for any Republican group ready to provide assistance to those having a difficult time making it,” he said.
May 26th, 2007 at 6:12 pmAll I can do is pray America gets single-payer universal health care so that the medical lobby stops sabotaging Canada’s health care system. Our system, which was once among the world’s very best, took a terrible hit in the 1990s when the US lobbyists came North trying to “do in” the competition. Of course, we have hung on. And the system still exists, although wait times can be long for elective and non-life threatening surgeries, but it could be so much better. AND STILL COST LESS PER CAPITA THAN AMERICANS SPEND NOW!!!!
May 26th, 2007 at 6:33 pmhttp://movies.aol.com/movie/sicko/26778/trailerSICKO TRAILER
May 26th, 2007 at 6:48 pmI predict immediate trollization of the comment section!
1) Moore is fat
May 26th, 2007 at 7:08 pm2) Moore is unamerican
3) Moore is making money
4) Moore is shrill
I predict immediate trollization of the comment section!
1) Moore is fat
2) Moore is unamerican
3) Moore is making money
4) Moore is shrill
Comment by El Tonno — May 26, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
I prefer the “Michael Snore” line of attack… you know… because no cares about the shit coming out of his mouth.
May 26th, 2007 at 7:16 pmMichael Moore is a true patriot.
May 26th, 2007 at 7:29 pmCannes, where elitist, anti-American, progressive film makers from ’round the globe come to fawn over each others’ “creativity”. What a bunch of Sickos!!
(Why did the US let Moore back in? Stay there already!)
May 26th, 2007 at 7:46 pm“Michael Moore is a true patriot.” Comment by Zooey
Here, let me fix that for you:
May 26th, 2007 at 7:48 pm“Michael Moore is a true patriot of Cuba.”
There. What did I say? And by Arch-Zombie, the fearless Valiant Venus no less.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:02 pmHere, let me fix that for you:
“Michael Moore is a true patriot of Cuba.â€
Comment by valiant venus
Oy that was lame, Haggie.
Try again!
May 26th, 2007 at 8:56 pmTaxing the rich is patriotic! Dodging taxes as a rich Democrat is patriotic too!
May 26th, 2007 at 10:01 pm#4
Maybe we can toss in free Ferraris and private jets along with ‘free’ healthcare.
It would make just about as much sense.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:02 pmIt’s dificult to believe that anyone with more than a single-digit IQ is able to take Michael Moore seriously.
May 26th, 2007 at 11:07 pm#18 – Catron
I can see why you would have difficulty dealing with your single-digit IQ.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:02 amMoore has done tremendous service to this country. he has done more than what any president has done on certain issues.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:24 amThe insurance industry has been a racket since the early 20th century. It began as a protection racket for immigrants emigrating to the United States, and if they didn’t buy protection something would happen to them, their homes and/or businesses.
The only difference from those days and these days is now they have the backing of the government, and henceforth, are now legal. In effect, the government protects the protection racket because the government now gets a slice of the pie, so now it’s okay.
Of course, the government regulates the industry to be more humane. Right, ask people with no insurance how humane the insurance industry is. For that matter, ask anyone without insurance how humane the health care industry is.
Thank you, Michael!! What you said–hopefully, this time the government listens.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:26 amIf insurance is so inhumane, why buy it?
May 27th, 2007 at 7:28 pmIf insurance is so inhumane, why buy it?
Comment by m12 — May 27, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
Many insurances, at least the ones that I buy, are mandatory. Health insurance, can’t afford it; home /renters, can’t afford; life insurance, why make someone rich upon my own death; disability, can’t afford; you get the picture.
Ask the ones living in Florida about how well they were treated by insurance companies. When it comes to profits, or really assisting their policy holders getting their life back on track they (insurance companies) will cut and run everytime.
The privatized system we have is driven by profits, and that means if the cost outweigh the benefits, then, no matter how much the assistance is needed it will not be provided.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:16 pmThis is a film that needed to be made. How can the number one nation in the world has such a shitty health care system? Riddle me that. Oh, because we are now “The United States of Corporate America.”
May 27th, 2007 at 8:28 pm