Democracy Now! - An Hour With Michael Moore On "Sicko"

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/18/1326235

An Hour With Michael Moore On "Sicko", His Trip to Cuba w/ 9/11 Rescue Workers, The Abolishment of Private Health Care Companies & The Health Care Policies of the 2008 Democratic Candidates


Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore sits down with Democracy Now! ahead of the release of his new film Sicko. The film is a seething indictment of the US health care system. It focuses not on the more than 40 million people who don't have healthcare but on the 250 million who do - many of whom are abandoned by the very health insurance industry they payed into for decades. "They are getting away with murder," Moore said of the health insurance companies. "They charge whatever they want. There is no government control and frankly we will not fix our system until we remove these private insurance companies." Michael Moore is on the move. On Wednesday, the Academy award winning filmmaker will testify on Capitol Hill. He then heads to New Hampshire to challenge presidential candidates, Democrat and Republican, over the nation's healthcare system.

His latest documentary "Sicko" is being released in thousands of theaters next week. The film is a seething indictment of the US health care system. It focuses not on the more than 40 million people who don't have healthcare but on the 250 million who do - many of whom are abandoned by the very health insurance industry they payed into for decades.

Yesterday I sat down with Michael Moore at the Tribeca Cinema just after he had done a sneak preview for 9/11 workers who fell ill after working in the toxic environment at Ground Zero. He was then doing a showing for the Center for Justice and Democracy - a tort reform group. I began by asking him what inspired him to make the film.

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But damn Michael, wearing shorts are not your best interview choice.

Great interview with clips from the movie with insight and backgrounds on the movie.
None of the candidates have a healthcare solution that are not profit motivated.

a true patriot and a brave, busy man. He's confronting Congress this week, then paying a 'visit' to prez candidates!

that is set up for profit. The change would be too revolutionary for this country, centralism of political thought
would allow the health insurance industries to survive in their bloated form while some reforms or
brakes would be put on the industry, nothing would really change and would be a window dressing. None of the candidates have talked about what really needs to be done and that is getting rid of the middle man.

considering how this movie will be viewed by so many. And hey, maybe the American people will DEMAND something different gets done. Yes, the middleman is the problem and the built-in, expensive bureaucracy.