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Article: Moore's 'Sicko' shows U.S. health care in critical condition.(Movie review)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2007
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Byline: Carrie Rickey
Jun. 29--Michael Moore as an advocate for the 250 million Americans with medical coverage tangled in the red tape of their HMO? Definitely not what the health-care provider ordered.
Yet Moore's Sicko, the professional provocateur's most accomplished and fervent film, is what the movie doc prescribes for temporary relief from the chronic headache that is the American health-care system.
It is not a polemic but a plea. Mellower than the crusading grizzly bear of Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore lumbers through the corridors of hospitals from L.A. to London, Ontario, to London, England. His focus is not on his jester self, but on ...