'Sicko': Heavily Doctored

[IdolKnights]

Full Story: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...58/story.jhtml

Michael Moore may see himself as working in the tradition of such crusading muckrakers of the last century as Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair — writers whose dedication to exposing corruption and social injustices played a part in sparking much-needed reforms. In his new movie, "Sicko," Moore focuses on the U.S. health-care industry — a juicy target — and he casts a shocking light on some of the people it's failed.

Moore does a real service in bringing these stories to light — some of them are horrifying, and then infuriating. One giant health-maintenance organization, Kaiser Permanente, is so persuasively lambasted in the movie that, on the basis of what we're told, we want to burst into the company's executive suites and make a mass citizen's arrest. This is the sort of thing good muckrakers are supposed to do.

Unfortunately, Moore is also a con man of a very brazen sort, and never more so than in this film

[IdolKnights]

Side note: The guy who cut his fingers off with a power saw hits home, so to speak...



But I cut 3 of them off. And also, with a power saw. This is what it looks like after 38 operations. (the cost I will not say. But my family paid for it out of pocket, no insurance)

I was also 1 year of age when it happened.

[Alex_Manifest_M]

You were only one? Hell, what happened to child labor laws! All my carpenters are at least 6 But you still type beautifully!