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HAVANA - Michael Moore's new documentary film "SiCKO" has given Cuba's free health system its best publicity since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, a Cuban doctor who hosted the filmmaker's visit said on Monday. Moore took eight Americans sickened after volunteering for the September 11, 2001, rescue efforts for free treatment in Cuba in March in order to extol the Communist state's universal care in his film, which attacks the U.S. health system for being driven by profits and leaving millions uninsured. "SiCKO" has stirred heated debate in the United States since opening in June due to its scathing indictment of...

Michael Moore loves government. OK, he doesn't love a government headed by George W. Bush, but he believes that once the Democrats are in charge, government will do a better job providing health care. In his new movie, "Sicko," he praises government-controlled health care systems in Canada and Europe. He suggests that Americans pay more for health care but have a shorter life expectancy than people in other countries because our health care is driven "by profit." He is wrong in so many ways.

The movie “SiCKO” — I went, I saw, and I was conquered! Yes, I came out of “SiCKO” more convinced than ever that single-payer is the only solution to America’s healthcare problems. Come on! We’re the wealthiest country on the planet. Why is it that Canada, Britain, France and even Cuba can deliver healthcare — FREE! — to all their citizens, and we can’t? Go see “SiCKO” and you’ll know the answer. It’s because of the powerful opposition of insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and big HMOs. As long as they’re in charge, we’ll never be able to deliver healthcare to...

One sick flick Peter Foster, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 "There's no doubt that a documentary by someone of Michael Moore's stature will help the world see the deeply humane principles of Cuban society." -- Jose Ramon Balaguer, Cuban Health Minister Michael Moore has said he wants to make movies from which people emerge saying, "I don't believe what I just saw." He has certainly hit the mark with Sicko. His latest attack on the American way of life is, literally, incredible -- a typical combination of bent facts and leftist grandstanding. It's not that health-care policy...

Michael Moore and CNN in `Sicko' Feud By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) - "Sicko" filmmaker Michael Moore called a truce Monday in his weeklong fight with CNN that flared when the network accused him of fudging facts in his popular documentary about the health-care system. Moore had promised the network over the weekend that "I'm about to become your worst nightmare," leading CNN to post on its Web site a remarkably lengthy response to his accusations. He noted in an interview Monday that CNN had admitted to two mistakes in reporting on "Sicko" and that he's willing to move...

A curious phenomenon is emerging. The reality of (the Michael Moore film) Sicko's disappointing box office figures notwithstanding, supporters of government-run universal health care, who latched on to the movie long before it was even released, seem undeterred in their increasingly messianic mission. It's as if – six decades after the campaign for socialized medicine began during the post-World War II administration of President Harry S. Truman – they can finally see their goal coming into view. Nothing, not least the disappointing box office receipts of a movie, is going to stop them.

In response to a letter Michael Moore wrote about CNN's reporting on his documentary "SiCKO," a CNN spokesperson released the following statement: "It's ironic that someone who has made a career out of holding powerful interests accountable is so sensitive to having his own work held up to the light by impartial journalists, as we did in our examination of 'SiCKO,' " the spokesperson said. (SNIP)

Given Michael Moore’s anti-war tendencies, you wouldn’t envision him to possess so much rage. However, following his well-publicized dustup with CNN last week (please see Business & Media Institute reports on the subject here and here), the controversial schlockumentarist has published an open letter threatening the network with reprisals.

July 13, 2007, 0:00 a.m. Moore “World of We”Michael Moore is practically the Leni Riefenstahl of socialism. By Rich Lowry Michael Moore set out to make a movie attacking the American insurance industry and ended up attacking the American character. By the end of his movie SiCKO, his plaint is less about American resistance to government-run health care than its overarching rejection of collectivism. As Moore puts it, everywhere else it’s “a world of we,” but here a “world of me.” His voice thus joins a vast, age-old chorus of left-wing bafflement and disillusion at American exceptionalism — our...

TORONTO, July 13 /CNW/ - The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is encouraging all nurses to take advantage of a special promotion which offers them free admission to filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary SiCKO. Alliance Atlantis Canada has announced that all nurses in the country can attend the film for free from Monday, July 16 to Thursday, July 19. Yesterday, Michael Moore was quoted in an Alliance Atlantis media release as saying "Nurses across Canada are on the front line in the battle against those forces who want to inch the Canadian health-care system toward the American way. They know...

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Fresh from the hospital and still hurting from a $757 prescription drug bill, moviegoer Ron Jackson emerged from a screening of Michael Moore's documentary on the U.S. health system feeling outraged and exuberant. "It's a great movie," said Jackson, 63. "I have insurance, and I still paid over $700 for one prescription -- just 30 days' worth. They've let Wall Street control the whole thing, it's as plain as the nose on my face." Weeks into the staggered release of Moore's "SiCKO" across the United States, moviegoing Americans have revived the debate over national health care --...

Canadians, that are hyper-sensitive because I wasn't being "fair" about our grand accomplishment need to take a good long look at themselves before they start pointing a finger. Consider the absurd mythology about America's health care that many have come to embrace as fact...and now that you know all this...consider who the real "sicko" is...

Michael Moore's latest outing into the pseudo documentary genre, Sicko, is, like the previous outings, comprised of one part sly humor, one part affected moral outrage. Like the previous outings, Sicko is not overly burdened by the truth. The truth would only get in the way, you see.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false front for the urge to rule it.—H. L. Mencken[1]There is a renewed interest in “socialized medicine.” Policy elites generally agree that the establishment of a universal, nationalized health care system would best be achieved through the creation of a single-payer health care system. This is nothing new. Since the Great Depression, political leaders advocating a government-run system have proposed massive large-scale changes, either through a government takeover of the system as in Britain or Canada or through extensive government control and regulation as embodied in the failed Clin­ton...

"Frankly, Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs so much in this country. He clearly is one of the reasons that we have a very expensive system. " Huckabee also singled out Moore for flying to Cuba in March for the documentary to obtain health care for a group of ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers. "Let me ask you, have you ever met anybody when they were really sick say, 'Oh my gosh, I have a desperate disease. Get me to Havana, I've got to have the best health care in the world,'" Huckabee said."

Nearly 50 million "Americans" lack health-care insurance. At least, director Michael Moore makes this claim in "Sicko," his new "documentary" about America's supposedly awful health-care system. Nearly 50 million Americans without health-care insurance? For what it's worth, the Centers for Disease Control puts the number of uninsured at 43.6 million, and the Census Bureau at 44.8 million. First, understand that lack of health-care "insurance" does not mean a lack of health care. Many emergency rooms, by law, provide medical care to anyone who walks in, whether an illegal or legal resident of this country. Second, when Moore asserts that 50...

Despite being given more attention than any other documentary film in history, Michael Moore's Sicko is performing below expectations–at this rate taking in less than one-fifth of his previous film Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore's smackdown performance with Wolf Blitzer on CNN was calculated to generate controversy about and rekindle interest in the lagging Sicko box office. Moore's schtick was like throwing red meat to his large core fan base that already thinks that CNN is right of center, too soft on (if not in cahoots with) the Bush-Cheney administration, and complicit in the selling of the Iraq war to the American...

Anyone see this debate on Larry King Live? Dr. Sanjay Gupta gives Michael Moore a run for his money on his statistics and fact gathering skills. Says Moore "fudged" his data and his terms "murky".

One of John McCain’s last moments as a legitimate Republican came when he described Michael Moore as a “disingenuous filmmaker.” The insult was perfect. It was accurate, it wasn’t unmerited, and it put the man so completely in his place that I actually spent the next hour or so thinking McCain still had decent guy potential. Despite both the accuracy and the beauty of McCain’s caricature, there are aspects of Michael Moore that are genuine. He is genuine in his pursuit of leftist politics, he is genuine in his desire to increase the size of the Federal Government, and he...

Filmmaker Michael Moore went off on CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer during an interview Monday to promote his latest documentary 'Sicko'. Moore blasted the anchor and the network for not doing enough to stop the Iraq war and for doing a 'crap' report on his new film. Moore also mocked the pronunciation of chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.