SiCKO now third highest grossing documentary ever.
By on Sep 11th, 2007 at 11:55 am
SiCKO now third highest grossing documentary ever.
Michael Moore’s health care documentary SiCKO is now the third highest grossing documentary of all time, “grossing $24.2 million domestically since it debuted in theaters on June 29th.”
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free market, baby!
September 11th, 2007 at 11:59 amSuck on this, Cyrus!
(hey Cyrus, I know a couple of kids on the block with a CD burner, maybe they could help you out!)
September 11th, 2007 at 12:03 pmWow
September 11th, 2007 at 12:04 pmOzzie’s posts got deleted fast!
Now that’s some healthy news!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:04 pmMultiply him by millions of fat Americans and we could save the planet.
Comment by Ozzie — September 11, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
Yeah, ‘n Rush Limbaugh, ‘n Michael Weiner, ‘n Glenn Beck, ‘n John Gibson, ‘n KKKarl Rove, ‘n Kyle Sampson, ‘n Brad Schlogman… yer onto sumpin’ here, Oozie!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:04 pmUniversal health care now!!!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:05 pmMeanwhile, the most expensive, yet crappiest healthcare system (the US) in the world just got even more expensive:
Health insurance premiums rise 6.1 pct. (outpacing inflation)
Health insurance premiums paid by workers and their employers rose an average of 6.1 percent this year, outpacing inflation and pay increases and taking a bigger chunk out of families’ budgets, according to a new survey.
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance for the average family topped $12,000 — with employees picking up about one-fourth of that cost — although the increase in premiums slowed for a fourth straight year…MORE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_bi_ge/insurance_rising_premiums
September 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pmwhen you talk about fatties, dont forget scott mclellen!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:14 pmIn Port Huron the other week, we, of Blue November picketed the Kraft 8 theater because they refused to show Sicko. Two weeks later, they reversed course and had the film. Check it out on http://www.bluenovember.org or http://www.michaelmoore websites.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:15 pmAnd only Fahrenheit 9/11 (also by MM) and March of the Penguins have grossed more. Think this might have touched a nerve with Americans somewhere?
September 11th, 2007 at 12:19 pmI would bet that the right wing critics haven’t seen the movie. They believe everything their right-wing radio and Fox News guys say as if it’s latest word straight from God, and instead of criticizing the actual movie (which they can’t, because they haven’t seen it), they make remarks about the filmmaker’s weight.
The snarky right wingers need to travel outside the country and actually talk to people about their health care systems, as Michael Moore does.
The right wing media don’t want people to find out what is happening in other countries, because then Middle Americans would find out how badly they’re being rooked by their employers and by a government that favors big business over everyone else.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:20 pm“Health insurance premiums rise 6.1 pct. (outpacing inflation)”
Look for this trend upwards to continue. The Pharmas and the HMO’s are beginning to see the writing on the wall and are in full profit mode. They sense that when the nation switches parties in 2009 there will begin a change in the mentality that has enabled this to go on for far too long. Just like Bush/Cheney running out the clock and making as much money as they can before they’re kicked out of the WH on their asses, the medical industries will follow suit until some form of checks and balances is brought down upon them.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:21 pmTransformers made more and it was fiction too.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:24 pmFiction? Could you please point out the parts of the film that were fiction?
September 11th, 2007 at 12:26 pm“I would bet that the right wing critics haven’t seen the movie. They believe everything their right-wing radio and Fox News guys say as if it’s latest word straight from God, and instead of criticizing the actual movie (which they can’t, because they haven’t seen it), they make remarks about the filmmaker’s weight.”
Comment by Lydia Leftcoast — September 11, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
This isn’t surprising, it’s SOP for trolls. They criticize Michael Moore by sniping about his weight. They criticize Barack Obama by pointing out how similar his last name is to “Osama” and that his middle name is Hussein. They criticize Hillary Clinton by comparing her voice to nails on a blackboard, making snarky remarks about the dimensions of her ankles, and making stupid broomstick jokes. They criticize John Edwards by obsessing about his hair.
It’s hard to take any of this very seriously if these are the worst things they can say about any of these people.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:27 pm“Transformers” was a fun ride, i’ll say that!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:35 pmbut i have a kid who collected them back then…
…
Fiction? Could you please point out the parts of the film that were fiction?
The state of the REAL Cuban hospitals, those that serve actual Cubans and not rich foreigners or party elites, the ‘hospitals’ that Moore didnt manage to visit.
Scroll down just a bit and see, then ask yourself why Castro had to send for a Spanish surgeon after his own doctor botched his operation.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:36 pmSorry, forgot the link. Here ya go.
http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm
September 11th, 2007 at 12:37 pmIn Port Huron the other week, we, of Blue November picketed the Kraft 8 theater because they refused to show Sicko.
Huh, guess you must have a lot of time on your hands when you can find spare hours to picket a theatre. Go figure.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:39 pmJust imagine how many people could have health insurance if Moore would take that money and give it back to those in need. Barring that, I’m glad people are seeing how sad our medical industry is here in America, praying to the Almighty Dollar instead of helping those in need.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:40 pm#
Transformers made more and it was fiction too.
Comment by Kevin — September 11, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
Basically, a meanigless comment. Did you see “Transformers”, Kevin?
September 11th, 2007 at 12:40 pmDid you wear your beanie cap and take your favorite teddy bear?
Go figure.
Comment by Chow — September 11, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Hmmm… appears to be another talking dog…
September 11th, 2007 at 12:41 pmust imagine how many people could have health insurance if Moore would take that money and give it back to those in need.
Comment by Stephen — September 11, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
Well, Stevie, if you compare the box-office gross of “Sicko” to the BILLION DOLLAR BONUSES some insurance execs get paid these days, I think it’d be alot more effective to take the profit motive out of healthcare.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:43 pmI have to agree with Mr(?) Chow, if you have enough spare time to picket a THEATRE for God’s sake, you are either jobless or easily brought to an hysterical state.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:44 pmif you have enough spare time to picket a THEATRE for God’s sake, you are either jobless or easily brought to an hysterical state.
Comment by Japaner — September 11, 2007 @ 12:44 pm
And yet you come here just to “picket” TP.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:47 pmI think it’d be alot more effective to take the profit motive out of healthcare.
Id enjoy that myself, having a government clerk declare that the operation I need just isnt that important, and to please come back during the next budget cycle.
When we pay the surgeons the same wage as the street sweepers, we might just run out of surgeons.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:47 pmAnd yet you come here just to “picket†TP.
Nope, I come here on my short lunch hour to talk with others, like we are doing now. :-)
If I were “picketing” then my appearances would arrive with demands; I make no demands, I just enjoy trading debate and the occassional barb.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pmMichael Moore makes jack crap for the movies. He spends nearly every buck promoting it so we can hear the good word. Well, paying Weinstein to promote it.
And MissMolly’s post is spot on. Go MissMolly!
September 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pm“In Port Huron the other week, we, of Blue November picketed the Kraft 8 theater because they refused to show Sicko.”
If you knew the neighborhood, you would understand why people have extra time on their hands.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pmA decaying, half boarded up region of the rust belt whose jobs went overseas.
Japaner & chow; Wake up and quit smelling the shit you are shoveling. 47 MILLION Americans have NO health insurance, millions more are being squeezed out of what health insurance that they do have. Drug companies are reaping in windfall profits from high drug prices.
Put down your bongs.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:51 pmThe U.S. health care system should be something we brag about. Instead, every country that has a form of universal health care does better than us in every measure, including cost per patient, cost per citizen, birth survival rates, longevity, and quality of life.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:51 pmDrug companies are reaping in windfall profits from high drug prices.
Put down your bongs.
Comment by Uncle Ho — September 11, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Then you better put down your bong and get busy curing cancer.
Im thinking those windfall profits you complain about dont keep you from taking the medicines those companies spend billions to R&D, medicines that make your life easier from maladies that would have killed or made you miserable fifty years ago.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:56 pmALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Chow; only a SMALL amount of their money goes INTO R & D. The rest is aimed at costs and PROFIT$.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:00 pmCuba has universal health care, snidely, feel free to peruse the link I included earlier and see if that particular system is one you would want to use on a regular basis.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:02 pmdo you understand, chow, that those profits are after expenditures?
and that MORE money is spent on ADVERTISING than R&D?
unnecessary advertising, i might add…
did you know that the US spends WAY more than any other country on medicines (script and OTC) ? …
did you know that the US is the only country that allows advertising of medicines?… except new zealand, which is in the process of banning those ads…
link shortly…
September 11th, 2007 at 1:06 pm.
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Chow; only a SMALL amount of their money goes INTO R & D. The rest is aimed at costs and PROFIT$.
Fine, you are still talking billions of dollars in R&D.
I doubt you have that type of money laying around to search for a cure for Parkinsons, but if you do then get about spending it with your best altruistic effort.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:06 pmdid you know that the US is the only country that allows advertising of medicines
Isnt the free market awesome?
September 11th, 2007 at 1:09 pmLookout! mr. peed-on-himself is putting in his half-cent in.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:09 pmThe Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care
David Gratzer
Socialized medicine has meant rationed care and lack of innovation. Small wonder Canadians are looking to the market.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:19 pmhere’s one:
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/00456/big-pharma2.html
it was the CBS report mentioned that i remember…
but i can tell you’re not really interested in the facts and TRUTH
so i won’t bother to find anymore links…
and, no, the “free market” is not awesome, because it is a fallacy…
September 11th, 2007 at 1:20 pm…
those are LIES, ozzie…
just plain LIES.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:21 pm.
and, no, the “free market†is not awesome, because it is a fallacy…
Yet you spend so much time at the mall enjoying the benefits of an open market, capitalism and economic freedom.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:23 pmDid you know Americans spend more on pet food than for third world relief efforts.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:26 pmAnd it never occurs to you why the old USSR and the current North Korea arent known for their medical discoveries or medicinal breakthroughs.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:27 pmYou do not want to go to the hospitals in Russia. very scary
September 11th, 2007 at 1:28 pmIn Port Huron the other week, we, of Blue November picketed the Kraft 8 theater because they refused to show Sicko. Two weeks later, they reversed course and had the film. Check it out on http://www.bluenovember.org or http://www.michaelmoore websites.
Comment by Uncle Ho
I have been hearing rumors that big pharma has bought out SICKO, to prevent it from being played at many movie theaters….also, the links to see SICKO on the internet, that I used to send are gone. Michael Moore has said repeatedly he does not care if the movie is found for free on the internet… just so everybody sees it…. So who is keeping SICKO from the public?
September 11th, 2007 at 1:51 pmPersonally, I would love to burn a bunch of SICKO, maybe start a campaign and send these to everyone in time before the primaries.
Once SICKO gets to DVD, he’ll still be raking in the money — so he can make even more movies exposing the filthy underbelly of this country. I plan on buying at least three copies.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:14 pmhad enough; We were met at the theater entrance by the Kraft 8 manager, who proceeded to say that the chain’s HQ is in Grand Rapids, and was not his decision to show/not show the movie. An earlier reply by the same manager only weeks earlier said that the movie would not be shown because it was “too liberal”(his own words)
I have heard of another documentary of the Iraq war titled ‘No End In Sight’. Does anyone know anything about that one?
September 11th, 2007 at 2:16 pmHiay Zooey!!! Where have you been? I was asking yesterday if anyone knew where you disappeared to.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:18 pmHi, Uncle Ho! I’ve been working on something new, with some friends. Click on my name. :-)
September 11th, 2007 at 2:21 pmZooey; I could only take a real quick peek on the stuff you’ve been working on. But from the little I did see, OUTSTANDING/4.0
September 11th, 2007 at 2:31 pmUncle Ho,
You are most welcome anytime. We’re having a special commemoration of 9/11 today, but just regular stuff any other day. Look forward to seeing you!
September 11th, 2007 at 2:36 pmComment by Zooey — September 11, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
I’ve been keeping an eye on your project and it’s a good thing. I’m just curious with school and all, how you find the time.
September 11th, 2007 at 4:08 pmBest-
Chow: “I doubt you have that type of money laying around to search for a cure for Parkinsons, but if you do then get about spending it with your best altruistic effort.”
Most of the money spent on R&D by big pharma is subsidized by the American taxpayer. We pay for it… and then, they own the patent. That doesn’t seem fair to me, and the only way to explain it is to point out that no industry has more lobbyists in DC than big pharma.
September 11th, 2007 at 5:21 pmCould phony comparisons to Cuba, a third-world nation which has been suffering under economic santions for decades be any more lame and pathetic. Yeah, guys, we’re better than Cuba!! Pathetic. Not to mention the fact that, as bad as they are, they have better infant mortality rates and life expectancy than we do. Nah, let’s compare to Britain, which gets results rated as twice as good for about 40% of the per capita cost. Or how about France, which is rated among the top in the world at less than 40% of the per capita cost we pay for healthcare.
September 11th, 2007 at 5:28 pmJapaner: “Id enjoy that myself, having a government clerk declare that the operation I need just isnt that important, and to please come back during the next budget cycle.
When we pay the surgeons the same wage as the street sweepers, we might just run out of surgeons.”
Right now, insurance companies pay an army of workers to deny claims. A worker has a corporate incentive to deny. A civil servant has no economic stake in whether or not you get care.
On your second “point,” again with the pathetic strawman arguments. Nobody is suggesting that surgeons and doctors are not among the most highly paid professionals in the market.
September 11th, 2007 at 5:31 pmThe CEO of a major HMO received $1.6 BILLION in compensation for his services last year. Overhead for the insurance-based healthcare system we use today: 25 to 40%.
Medicare, which is a classic single-payer system runs with an overhead of about 3%.
September 11th, 2007 at 6:55 pmMy nephew pays about $40 for a little bottle of 25 test strips to test his blood for Type I diabetes. In Austrailia, the very same bottle of 25 strips costs $3.00. And, pharmaceutical companies are free to NOT sell their products in Austrailia, yet they keep selling them there.
September 11th, 2007 at 6:57 pmOzzie suggests an article: “The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care” by David Gratzer
But, oh, oh, when you go to Davit Gratzer’s webpage, you find out that Gratzer is a shameless insurance industry shill. He even has links for all of the major HMO’s on his page so that you can quickly go sign up.
Why is it that these corporatists will sit there and make snide remarks about Michael Moore’s truthfulness and then, in the next instant, site an article written by someone paid by the insurance industry to shill for their profits?
September 11th, 2007 at 7:08 pmWould someone please put a bullet in that FAT bastard!!!! The free market is the reason the USA has the best health care in the world. I do not have health care by choice, I pay cash when I go see the doctor just like any other service. Health care is a priveledge, NOT A RIGHT!!!! Do you think doctors will go to school for 8-9 years (longer if they specialize) if they can’t make any money. I am in financial planning and alot of the people I know that don’t have health care, prefer to use the money to buy a second car they don’t need, or a house that is to big and out of their budget. Iam 35 years old and have had to work very hard for the things in my life, the majority of liberals don’t understand this concept because they are highschool dropouts and to stupid to form a rational argument.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:11 pmSincerely,
Phillip L. Williams
Republican/Libertarian
p.s. would someone please wipe michael moore’s FAT ASS off this planet-I’ll let your imagination figure out how