Moore is very popular around here, basically only because he is very criticising of the Us government.

While I agree with some of his points, he is just as manipulative as the presidential spin meisters.

In bowling for columbine there is a scene where he combines the protests of mourning families with a speech from the NRA president, but he switches scenes several times to obfuscate the fact that he is mixing and matching parts of different speeches in order to create the maximum effect, ripping sentences totally out of context.

I guess it is the same with Sicko.
that being said, I think the US healthcare system is fundamentally flawed.
2 years ago a Us construction worker shot himself in the head with a nailgun.
He survived but he was not too happy because he knew he'd literally work the rest of his life to pay off that one accident that cost him 100K$.


A US friend told me that he had to pay 700 a month for health insurance just for himself, and he still had to copay for doctors visits, and the first couple of 1000's of dollars on a yearly basis had to be paid by himself.

So anyone not lucky enough to have a good medicare and dental plan from his or her employer is basically hosed as soon as something bad happens.