Words Dept.: entry

There’s an interesting review of Michael Moore’s new movie, Sicko, on Salon.com. The film is about the apparent failures of the healthcare system in the USA. In one section, Moore travels to the UK and, in an attempt to illustrate how the USA has got it all wrong, presents free healthcare on the NHS as a “utopian ideal”.

I’ve always quite enjoyed Moore’s heavy-handed black/white style of presenting an argument but this seems a little weird, considering how everyone in Britain has a horror story about their own, or a friend’s, personal hell in an NHS hospital.

There’s also an alarming “I-do-a-lot-of-work-for-charidee-but-don’t-like-to-talk-
about-it” moment where Moore reveals that he is the mystery donor who has paid the $12,000 medical bill for an internet critic, a tale recounted here via the Guardian.