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Saturday, June 30, 2007
EBERT on SICKO 

Everyone's a critic, but when it comes to considering Michael Moore's Sicko, some critical voices might be a little bit more important than others.

From Roger Ebert's positive review:

I saw the movie almost a year to the day after a cartoid artery burst after surgery and I came within a breath of death. I spent the next nine months in Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and the Pritikin Longevity Center, and still require the daily care of a nurse. I mention this to indicate I am pretty deeply involved in the health care system. In each and every case, without exception, I have been cared for by doctors who are kind, patient, painstaking and expert, and by nurses who are skilled, wise and tireless. My insurance has covered a small fortune in claims. My wife and I have also paid large sums from our own savings.

So I have only one complaint, and it is this: Every American should be as fortunate as I have been. As Moore makes clear in his film, some 50 million Americans have no insurance and no way to get it.


(Thanks to Movie City News for the link.)


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# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 6/30/2007 11:14:00 AM
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