Product ReviewsSicko (DVD, 2007)

Michael Moore's Sicko Documentary

I am basically NOT a fan of all of Michael Moore's ideas but will have to say that SICKO is an excellent film biography disclosing the truth about how Big Pharma is totally ripping-off the American public i.e. "We The Sheeple" when scrip drugs can be purchased for a fraction of retail prices from almost any other country and yet our gov't. crooks
refuse to do zilch about it and even discourage Americans from attempting to buy these drugs from other countries.

I have been prescribed 3 Nexium PER DAY but since health insurance policies have the damnable 'donut hole' clause in them, I far surpass the cost of Nexium that Medicare will allow for this drug each year.

I started searching the internet and found a reputable pharmacy in Canada where I can buy Nexium in any quantity I want with the only stipulation that I must initially submit an MD's script order ONCE and that's all. These pills come from France a cost a mere 85-cents each as compared to the over five dollars that the same Astra Zeneca Nexium drug is sold here in the U.S.

As with ALL European-dispensed prescription drugs, they all come in a weekly, carded, punch-out format and the ones I get from France are clearly marked and come in purple outer packaging that is very clearly marked MADE BY ASTRA ZENECA IN FRANCE!

As the old saying goes...there is something rotten in Denmark, but I'd say MORE WRONGDOING is being done to the American public and not one thing is being done to help correct the hiway robbery for scrip drugs that takes place here while bankrupting many elderly who simply do have the funds to buy them!Read full review...

A great documentary!!

I have been involved medicine for over 50 years. First as a victum of polio in 1952, gradurating from an iron lung, ten surgeries, and at age of 14, I was able to walk without support. I gradurated form medical school in 1976 and have practiced primary care since then. I grew up in poverty in the Appalachia. I am tired of trying to care for patients with so many barriers that insurance places on my patients and me. There were few barriers when I was treated at the Cripple Childrens Clinic growing up. If there were my life would have been different. I hope the people in United States will reconize the propaganda that insurance companies have propegated and the Grand Old Party will develop a heart and try to help disfortunate people. I have lived though poverty, a major disability,medical school and attempt to help poor and geriatic in my practice. The reason I am a doctor is that doctors were my hero. The ones in congress have disapponted me in selling themselfs to insurance companies and appears to not care about common person. I am glad I didn't run into them when is was a child with polio.
It was a great move and it displays the true of insurance companies in discharging people when they need help and people go bankrupt with insurance.
All needs health care no one needs insurance. SWM M.D.Read full review...

GREATdespite poor video quality of PIRATED copy sold.

This film makes a solid argument that capitalism does not "work" in all aspects of goods and services. It is great to get a dozen tube socks for $2 and a DVD player for $20, but I do not want the same bottom line determining the health care I receive. Some things just should not be run for-profit. I hate to admit it... health care is better left to government control; just ask a western European.

Getting back to capitalism... kudos to the eBay'er who sold me a pirated DVD of this film... it's missing the Special Features! You could have at least PhotoShop'd that off your version of the DVD cover.Read full review...

"Undeniable but True" - from the theme

Love him or hate him, Michael Moore has scored with "Sicko".

While one may argue that he only includes segments that would support his point - DUH! - Everyone has either a personal experience or knows someone with a complaint about health care insurance. If they are even lucky enough to have it. And this movie sums up the horror stories quite well with a few of its own.

Bear in mind that "Sicko" isn't an indictment of health care itself but of the industry of health insurance, and how treatment is deplorable if you either don't have it or don't fit perfectly into that "for profit" industry's definition of who can be treated and what they can be treated for or with.

The movie is sad and a bit depressing, but people suffering needlessly is decidedly not an entertaining subject. Fortunately, the movie is free of Moore's usual awkward confrontations. Which can come off as a bit smug. Instead, the focus is on working people - some of which served as rescue workers on 9/11 - just can't get a fair shake from the health care / insurance industry. Moore goes so far as to take a few of his beleaguered subjects to Cuba for treatment, where they are given the medical care they need.

Another spotlight is in speaking with people, including health care professionals, in a few other countries where socialized medicine is practiced. Of course, no negative stories there are shown. Which runs counter to my own experience, having heard some woeful stories from expatriates from two of those countries. But I believe the point of the film in this regard is that no sick citizen is turned away in these places. And that holds up, reinforced with the adage that a society can only be as good as it treats the best off and the worst off of its members.

I recommend the film for anyone who can appreciate an eye opening, if one-sided, documentary. I'd also recommend it for anyone who has heard horror stories from friends, family & co-workers. I guess the only group who I wouldn't recommend this to is anyone with a predisposition to kill the messenger AND his message. And to those people - I hope you have some damn good health insurance or are independently wealthy when you get sick!Read full review...

SICKO

While I can't support Michael Moore on every issue, his movie "Sicko" is absolute truth expressed in a most concise, poetic way. Everyone should view this movie- especially people opposed to Universal Health Care..Read full review...

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Don't get Sick(o) in America

After viewing Michael Moore's most recent documentary I have come to one simple, poignant, and somewhat regretful conclusion: If you get sick, don't get sick in America.

For as much as we Americans bad mouth (and often loath) other countries such as Canada, Great Britain, France, and Cuba (yes, even Cuba) they all have something we don't: Free Health Care. Ok, so you'll have to pay for your prescription medication in Cuba, but in all fairness they pay less than 1% of the cost you would pay for the same meds here in the U.S.

Michael Moore makes it perfectly and painfully clear that America's PPOs, HMOs, drug manufacturers, and their political lobbies are, by and large, not interested in the health and well-being of you and I. They are however, interested in two things: YOUR MONEY going into THEIR POCKETS and their bottom line staying in the black....way into the BLACK.Read full review...

Sicko (DVD, 2007)

I missed this documentary about the American healthcare system when it was publicly shown. I purchased it because for the past thirty years I have been of the opinion that the system is a national disgrace, maintained only for the profits of the "insurance" industry and the pharmaceutical monopolies that rule the Congress. It is by far the worst among industrialized nations, imperiling the life expectancy and infant mortality of all Americans as compared with all Western, and most developing nations.

It is topical because as usual the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are currently using strong arm tactics with the Congress against any effort to provide equitable access to basic healthcare, all the while protecting their profits. Using lobbying, making false accusations that any effort to change the system would be "socialist," bullying the ignorant to oppose changes and resorting to the kind of propaganda previously exclusive to the Third Reich are among the tactics that will assure that Americans continue to pay the most in the world for inadequate care.

After watching it, every American should demand to know why he is paying so much for so little. He should further ask why among all industrialized nations, his government refuses to negotiate prices for his overpriced medications.Read full review...

His Best Yet

Recalcitrant Michael Moore is at it again and has succeeded in producing his best film to date (in my opinion). It is a very important issue, especially to us elderly citizens, who are just hanging by a thread (cat gut?) avoiding hospital and doctor's bills as best we can. "Sicko" is a very entertaining and touching review of the health care scene as encountered in the U.S. At times it is very funny. He then contrasts our system of health care, to that found in Canada, England, France (where they even have house calls 24/7!), and
......CUBA! The humanity and peacefulness discovered outside the U.S. is pleasantly disarming and engenders an element of hope, that we too one day will come to our senses and realize that the health of our citizenry is worth much more than the bottom line on Wall Street. This is one that I try to get as many people as possible to see, it's that important. Russ 1938lbRead full review...

Moore's Sicko is his best film yet

simply put, every American should watch this film and get involved. Our heathcare system effects all of us, and Mr. Moore exposes these rats for who they are.
thanks Mike

PS. some of the best parts of this DVD was in the extra features. everyone should watch the parts about life in Norway, especially thier prisons. also the interview with a british politican about social heathcare and democracy is thought provoking as well. we need more politicans like this here.Read full review...

Siko - A Documentary on Medical Industry

With a broken health care system and medical insurance costs spiraling out of control, this documentary asks questions and brings to light situations with which all Americans should be concerned - denied coverage, medical decisions made by insurance company personel and a look at national health coverage in other countries. Would we as Americans have problems with National Health Insurance? Sure, but as we are approaching 50 million Americans uninsured for various reasons - cost, preexisting conditions, loss of jobs, etc., etc. We need answers and find that Washington is controlled by lobbyists for medical insurance & drug companies. Is it only our senators, congressmen and wealthy Americans that are entitled to quality medical care or has the time come when all Americans deserve the same? Watch this documentary and make your own decisions!Read full review...