"Sicko" reviewed

<img src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/10/mikemoore.jpg" alt="sicko" border="1" align="left" style="padding:2px;" /> Rochester Indymedia asked for reviews of <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Michael Moore</a>'s new film <a href="http://www.sicko-themovie.com/">"Sicko"</a> via our <a href="http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-rochester/">working listserv</a> for feature status on the website. We got two responses. Here they are. <br /> <br /> <b>Javier writes:</b> Michael Moore's Sicko is a powerful attack on Corporate US and its insistence on making profit by any means necessary. This time the monsters are Health Insurance Companies and its victims, middle class US citizens who can afford to have a Health Insurance and unionized working class people that were able to gain that right from their companies. In order to understand his point of view we must analyze his political beliefs and know what type of public he's addressing. From my perspective, Michael Moore is a Liberal. For me, a Liberal is a left-wing reformist: his goal is to reform capitalism. This can be done by State regulations on private companies (like environmental) or the State taking control of indispensable services like education and health in order to provide these services on a non-profit base. That's why he presented countries labeled as Social Democracies like Canada, France and England. His classic sarcasm was pretty good while comparing these countries with the US, but still you can sense his conservatism, hopefully for the public he's trying to address, when he pointed out that high middle class doctor in England that could afford a BMW. Read the full review <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20489/index.php"><b>here</b></a>. <br /> <br /> <b>Matt writes:</b> "Sicko" is the latest documentary by muck-raking filmmaker Michael Moore. Those expecting a Republican-bashing film like "Fahrenheit 9/11" will find some of that here, but primarily this film attacks the corporations responsible for the deplorable state of health care in the United States. Nearly 50 million citizen have no health care, and while these people are certainly highlighted, "Sicko" mainly focuses on those of us that do have health care. Read the full review <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20488/index.php"><b>here</b></a>.

<p><img src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/10/mikemoore.jpg" alt="sicko" border="1" align="left" style="padding:2px;" /> Rochester Indymedia asked for reviews of <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Michael Moore</a>'s new film <a href="http://www.sicko-themovie.com/">"Sicko"</a> via our <a href="http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-rochester/">working listserv</a> for feature status on the website. We got two responses. Here they are. </p> <p> <b>Javier writes:</b> Michael Moore's Sicko is a powerful attack on Corporate US and its insistence on making profit by any means necessary. This time the monsters are Health Insurance Companies and its victims, middle class US citizens who can afford to have a Health Insurance and unionized working class people that were able to gain that right from their companies. In order to understand his point of view we must analyze his political beliefs and know what type of public he's addressing. From my perspective, Michael Moore is a Liberal. For me, a Liberal is a left-wing reformist: his goal is to reform capitalism. This can be done by State regulations on private companies (like environmental) or the State taking control of indispensable services like education and health in order to provide these services on a non-profit base. That's why he presented countries labeled as Social Democracies like Canada, France and England. His classic sarcasm was pretty good while comparing these countries with the US, but still you can sense his conservatism, hopefully for the public he's trying to address, when he pointed out that high middle class doctor in England that could afford a BMW. Read the full review <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20489/index.php"><b>here</b></a>. </p> <p> <b>Matt writes:</b> "Sicko" is the latest documentary by muck-raking filmmaker Michael Moore. Those expecting a Republican-bashing film like "Fahrenheit 9/11" will find some of that here, but primarily this film attacks the corporations responsible for the deplorable state of health care in the United States. Nearly 50 million citizen have no health care, and while these people are certainly highlighted, "Sicko" mainly focuses on those of us that do have health care. Read the full review <a href="http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20488/index.php"><b>here</b></a>.</p>