Michael Moore, the alternative protest film maker (Bowling for Columbine, Farenheit 9/11) who upset so many people over his last film, has released his latest movie, SICKO, in the US after a real fight with the politicians weilding influence with major film distributors to block getting the movie out.The movie takes a look at the corporations in the US that sell health insurance but do their level best to prevent paying for people when they actually get sick.
Michael asked for stories about people's health fund experiences and received 21,000 emails. The movie begins showing a 79-year old who still shows up as a supermarket cleaner because with no health insurance, it's the only way he can pay for his wife's pain killers. It goes on to demonstrate that even if you do have health insurance the companies who are supposed to support you may well kill you.
What really bowled me over was his visits to Canada, England and France where all health care is free. Happy people who believe in helping those of us less fortunate discussed how they felt about these schemes and why they believed in them. These people came from not - as I expected - a radical political background, but from conservative.
Finally, he takes three very sick 9/11 volunteers who have been denied medical help by the US Goevernment to Cuba where they receive better help than they ever received in the US.
This movie deserves to be seen by every adult Australian because it makes us realise that we've been seriously ripped off by the government over health care. And you know what really got to me? We let it happen!
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