Who made the highly critical documentry film Sicko, about the US healthcare system?
Sicko Sicko Sicko (stylized as SiCKO) is a 2007 American documentary film made by filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the profiteering, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. "Sicko" was made on a budget of about $9 million, and grossed $25 million theatrically in the United States. This box office take exceeded the official expectation of The Weinstein Company, which had hoped for a gross in line with "Bowling for Columbine"'s
Sicko omission, exaggeration and cinematic sleight of hand to make its points." WBAI Radio, part of the Pacifica Radio Network, reported that "Sicko" was revitalizing the debate for universal health care within the United States, calling the film "adrenaline for healthcare activists." In a letter responding to a "Wall Street Journal" op-ed by David Gratzer that was critical of the film, Robert S. Bell, M.D., President and CEO of University Health Network, Toronto, said that while Moore "exaggerated the performance of the Canadian health system," it provides universal coverage of a similar quality to that enjoyed by only some Americans. Michael