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DVD Review: SiCKO (Special Edition)

Written by Kevin Eagan
Published November 06, 2007
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The SiCKO DVD also has over eighty minutes of new material, including outtakes and extended interviews. Moore interviews with Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, where she says that even those with insurance may or may not be covered fully. Warren explains that more than half of families who file for bankruptcy do so because of health-care costs. Warren also says that seventy-five percent of these families actually had health insurance at the onset of the health problems. I'm not sure why Moore didn't use this interview in the full-length movie, but interviews like this make the DVD worthwhile. Also, Moore conducts an extended interview with Tony Benn, the UK Labour politician featured in SiCKO. The DVD also has more examples of Americans without health care, and of course, the examples are as shocking as expected.

The DVD version of Michael Moore's SiCKO will most likely re-ignite the passionate debate over the American health care system, just as it did when SiCKO went to cinemas across the country. One thing is for sure, Moore wants a different system, specifically one that takes corporate greed out of the equation. Hopefully, this may one day be a reality, but for now, watch SiCKO and decide for yourself what needs to be done to fix the American health care system.

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Kevin Eagan is a Blogcritics Books Editor and (occasional) freelance writer based in the Greater St. Louis, MO area. He also writes at There There Kid, a blog that focuses on literature, culture, and music.
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DVD Review: SiCKO (Special Edition)
Published: November 06, 2007
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Section: Video
Filed Under: Review, Politics: Policy, Video: Documentary
Writer: Kevin Eagan
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