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Michael Moore calls for socialized medicine.(Inside Track)(filmmaker Michael Moore)(Brief article)
Filmmaker Michael Moore's latest cinematic provocation, dubbed SiCKO, opens in theaters on June 29. The film's premiere at the "Cannes Film Festival has been an overwhelming success," Moore says on his website. "The 2,000 people inside the Lumiere Theater were alternately in tears and laughing during the two-hour film."
According to Moore, the purpose of the film is to "ignite a fire for free, universal health care." To that end, he makes the film a vehicle for extolling the virtues of socialized medicine in Cuba, Canada, and France. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Moore spends much of the film focusing on France's socialized medicine. Doctors lead comfortable lives, patients receive attentive care, employers grant extended health-related leaves--all reasons the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked France tops in its global 2000 survey of the best healthcare countries."
The filmmaker then goes after the ...
- EMPLOYERS LASH OUT AT MOORE'S SICKO AGENDA.(Out Front)(Michael Moore)
- Magazine article from: Workforce Management Smerd, Jeremy June 25, 2007 700+ words
...growing number of employer groups, filmmaker Michael Moore says he wants to fix America's $2 trillion...we can expand access to health care in the United States,'' Gelfand says. "Michael Moore is not worried about finances or the reality...
- Michael Moore's sick prescription.(Correction, Please!)(health care systems)
- Magazine article from: The New American Hoar, William P. August 6, 2007 700+ words
...on July 2, praises Michael Moore's movie Sicko...healthcare in the United States and promotes universal...Barbara Waiters tells Michael Moore: "A lot of the film...gushing by the left over Michael Moore's Sicko paean to...
- Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11: How One Film Divided a Nation.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Watts, Jill December 22, 2007 700+ words
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11...reelection campaign, director Michael Moore released Fahrenheit 9/11, a film on the United States' war in Iraq. Fahrenheit...national divisions. In Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11...
- New Michael Moore flick focuses on economy.
- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack May 21, 2009 700+ words
...21 (UPI) -- Overture Films and Paramount Vantage said Thursday Oscar-winner Michael Moore's new documentary feature will be released in the United States Oct. 2. The companies said in a release the as-yet-untitled film will "explore...
- Bowling for Columbine: Michael Moore Off-Target. (Review).
- Magazine article from: off our backs Gage, Carolyn January 1, 2003 700+ words
...directed by Michael Moore. If you haven...violence in the United States and an important...collective I just saw Michael Moore's Bowling for...fall for it.) Michael Moore traces the history...and guns in the United States. But he does...
- Michael Moore to Attend Sneak Preview of New Film Bowling for Columbine In...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 16, 2002 700+ words
...renowned filmmaker Michael Moore will host a sneak preview...We're honored that Michael Moore is coming home to share...force from filmmaker Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine...firearms abuse in the United States. The first documentary...
- Part One of Two - General Assembly Overwhelmingly Calls For End To United...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 31, 2007 700+ words
...medical treatments. The United States delegation should explain...Governments solidarity with United States filmmakers Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, who had shot documentaries...He said that, while the United States had ignored with arrogance...
- Delicious and disastrous: animated 'Ratatouille' is a tasty delight; Michael...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Cunneen, Joseph Doherty, Kevin August 3, 2007 700+ words
...successfully to create this genuine work of popular art. Michael Moore's eagerly awaited documentary, Sicko, a skillful but scathing report on the health care system in the United States, should make everyone lucky enough to have coverage rush...
- Americans and Guns : Michael Moore's provocative new documentary triesto come...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Thomas, Dana June 3, 2002 700+ words
...prompted U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore, armed with cameras and...try to understand why the United States has the highest gun-related...winning marksman. But when the United States got involved in the Vietnam...try to find funding in the United States because he was ...
- Unresolved Problem: Snow Discusses Michael Moore.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire August 6, 2004 700+ words
...difficulties, but Michael Moore's view of the world...really racist. Because Michael Moore was -- I mean, he...which Arabs here in the United States are most affected by...this. You've got Michael Moore, he's putting all...
