Sicko (2007)

Sicko is softer-hitting and more centrist than anything Michael Moore has donebut that's not to say it has a soft center. This time, the documentarian documents instead of starting fires, and he even entertains. It is, shall we say, the Switzerland of his oeuvre.

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Anybody who goes to see Michael Moore's latest documentary will have already taken a side. No, not republican/democrat or love him/hate him, but rather insured/uninsured. Some 50 million Americans are currently without health…

Note to the president: Here’s your chance to lock up Michael Moore. The radically fierce and funny fireball he aims at our health-care system is a flat-out invitation to steal. First, Moore shows us how France, England, Canada and – yikes! – Cuba actually help sick people instead of letting them wither and die for lack of health insurance. Then he instructs us to loot those places for ideas. Anti-American? Hell, no. Moore argues that if another country builds a better car, we buy it. If it…