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Michael Moore Slices Up Health Care in ‘Sicko’
Provocative
filmmaker
shoots next film
(A P) — First, G eneral Motors. Then gun
control, follow ed by G eorge W. Bush. Now
rabble-rousing film m aker M ichael M oore has
turned his irreverent cam era on health care in
America,
"Sicko." M oore's dissection o f the health
care system, piom ises to be another hilarious
docum entary rom p, based on excerpts he re
cently show ed at the T oronto International
Film Festival.
D uring a tw o -h o u r appearance, M oore
d isc u sse d his c a re e r as a c o u n tercu ltu re
journalist, provocative film m aker and liberal
stan d ard -b earer, and he played three clips
from "S icko," w hich he said w ould be in
theaters next June.
The segm ents presented stories o f personal
health care nightm ares, including that o f a
w om an denied paym ent for an am bulance ride
after a head-on collision because it was not
preapproved.
"They try to find every way they can to deny
it to you or not sell it to you," he told a packed
theater. "Or they try to find anyw ay they can
not to pay the bill."
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D irector M ich a el M oore arrives a t th e Toronto In tern a tio n a l Film F estival to p ro m o te h is
la te s t film 'S ic k o ,' a hilarious d o c u m e n ta ry ro m p th a t d is s e c t s th e h e a lth ca re s y s te m .
(AP p h o to )
co n clu d in g that C an ad ian s have m ore e q u i
table access to m edical services.
The idea for "Sicko" grew out o f a segment
from M oore's TV show "The Awful Truth," in
which he staged a mock funeral outside a health-
m aintenance organization that had declined a
pancreas transplant for a diabetic man. The
HMO later relented.
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Health care representatives dow nplay the
potential impact ot M oore's docum entary.
"W e can't control what a m ajor Hollywood
entertainer does," said M ohit G hose, a spokes
man for the trade group America's Health Insur
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agenda o f high-quality health care for more
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