"""Larry King Live"", Gupta posted a message about his position on ""Sicko"" and CNN's coverage. Wendell Potter admitted that while he was working as Head of Corporate Communications at CIGNA, the health insurance industry umbrella agency America's Health Insurance Plans had developed a campaign to discredit Michael Moore and the movie. When asked what he thought about the film Potter said that ""I thought that he hit the nail on the head with his movie. But the industry, from the moment that the industry learned that Michael Moore was taking on the health care industry, it was really concerned ..."
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"avoid paying him the money. In February 2012, Moore and the Weinsteins informed the court that they had settled their dispute. Moore directed the 2007 film, ""Sicko"", about the American health care system, focusing particularly on the managed-care and pharmaceutical industries. At least four major pharmaceutical companies—Pfizer, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline—ordered their employees not to grant any interviews or assist Moore. According to Moore in a letter on his website, ""roads that often surprise us and lead us to new ideas—and challenge us to reconsider the ones we began with have caused some minor delays."" The film premiered at"
"that the media haven’t covered extensively for years."" Kurt Loder criticized the film as presenting cherry-picked facts, manipulative interviews, and unsubstantiated assertions. While admitting that the U.S. health care system needs reform, Loder criticized Moore’s advocacy of government control, arguing that many services controlled by the government are not considered efficient by the American public. Loder points to a 2005 film, ""Dead Meat"", by Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenberg, which documents long waiting lists for care in Canada. Loder points to calls for reform in Britain and France due to the same rationing. ""USA Today's"" Richard Wolf said, """"Sicko"" uses"
"""Miami Herald"" interviewing some Cuban exiles in the United States criticized ""Sicko"" for painting a rosy picture of the Cuban healthcare system. In an article published in both ""The New Yorker"" and ""Reason"" magazine, Michael C. Moynihan called the film ""touching, naïve and maddeningly mendacious, a clumsy piece of agitprop that will likely have little lasting effect on the health care debate"". Surgeon and Associate Director of Brigham and Women's Hospital's Center for Surgery and Public Health Atul Gawande commented, """"Sicko"" is a revelation. And what makes this especially odd to say is that the movie brings to light nothing"
"a life-threatening condition that would have caused her intestines to perfuse inadequately, leading her to, in essence, starve to death. The Free Market Cure The Free Market Cure is a series of four short documentary films, each of which tells a separate story about the failure of socialized medicine in each of the subjects' lives. The films focus on the ""single-payer"" system as seen in Canada, the likes of which has been advocated by other filmmakers, like Michael Moore in his film Sicko. The series is meant to offer examples of cautionary tales which give cause to question the nature"
"Sicario (2015 film) Sicario (, which is translated into English as ""Hitman"") is a 2015 American crime film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Taylor Sheridan and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, and Victor Garber. The film follows a principled FBI agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel. ""Sicario"" was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It began a limited release in the United States on September 18, 2015, followed by a nationwide release on"
"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"
"""Sicko"" as ""a very strong and very honest film about a health system that's totally corrupt and that is without any care for its patients"". The film was listed as the 4th best film of 2007 by Carina Chocano of ""Los Angeles Times"", as well as 8th best by Marjorie Baumgarten of ""The Austin Chronicle"". ""Sicko"" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was also commended in the Australian Film Critics Association 2007 Film Award for Best Documentary. Journalist John Stossel wrote an article in the ""Wall Street Journal"" that claimed Julie Pierce's husband, Tracy, featured"
"reappraisal. Documentary movie maker Michael Moore in his documentary ""Sicko"" pointed out that Americans do not talk about public libraries or the police or the fire department as being ""socialized"" and do not have negative opinions of these. Media personalities such as Oprah Winfrey have also weighed in behind the concept of public involvement in healthcare. A 2008 poll indicates that Americans are sharply divided when asked about their views of the expression ""socialized medicine"", with a large percentage of Democrats holding favorable views, while a large percentage of Republicans holding unfavorable views. Independents tend to somewhat favor it. The"
"$22 million US box office gross. According to ""Sicko"", almost fifty million Americans are uninsured while the remainder, who are covered, are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. Furthermore, ""Sicko"" references the World Health Organization which lists the U.S. health in general as ranked 37 out of 191, with certain health measures, such as infant mortality and life expectancy, equal to countries with much less economic wealth. Interviews are conducted with people who thought they had adequate coverage but were denied care. Former employees of insurance companies describe cost-cutting initiatives that give bonuses to insurance company physicians"
"Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), wrote a letter opposing Gupta's nomination. Conyers supports a single-payer health care system, the sort that Conyers' filmmaker friend Michael Moore advocated in his documentary ""Sicko""; Gupta has criticized Moore and the film. Others, such as liberal commentator Jane Hamsher, defended the appointment, noting that Gupta's responsibilities as a surgeon general would be not that different from those of his CNN position, and that Gupta's media presence would make him ideal for the position. From the medical community, Donna Wright, of Creative Health Care Management, a regular commentator on medicine and politics, also defended the appointment on"
"a ""brilliant and uplifting new film"" and praised Moore for the way in which he lets ""very articulate average Americans tell their personal horror stories at the hands of insurance companies"" and ""criticizes both Democrats and Republicans for their inaction and in some cases their willingness to be bribed by pharmaceutical companies and insurance carriers."" British film magazine ""Empire"" praised Moore's filmmaking and personal artistic vision, exclaiming """"Sicko"" is the film that truly reveals Moore as an auteur."" David Denby of the ""New Yorker"" called the film ""feeble, even inane"", but film critic Stephen Schaefer of ""The Boston Globe"" described"
"""Sicko"", which included portions of her May 1996 appearance before Congress. On June 28, 2007, in a statement about ""Sicko"", Humana declared that Peeno was never a Humana ""associate"" (permanent, full-time employee), but rather a ""part-time contractor"". Humana also disputed the portions of Congressional testimony that were shown by saying that because the patient's specific healthcare plan didn't cover heart transplants, the denial of coverage was valid. Peeno was a teacher at Spencerian College in Louisville, Kentucky. Linda Peeno Linda Peeno is an American physician, ethicist, and lecturer known for being a whistleblower against the American managed healthcare industry. Following"
"film also won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes film festival. His documentary ""Sicko"", which examines health care in the United States, is one of the top ten highest-grossing documentaries. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the internet, ""Slacker Uprising"", which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows ""TV Nation"", a satirical news-magazine television series, and ""The Awful Truth"", a satirical show. In 2018 he released his latest film, ""Fahrenheit 11/9"", a documentary about the 2016 United States presidential"
"of Michael Moore's documentary ""Sicko"", saying it was ""heavily doctored."" He argued, ""When governments attempt to regulate the balance between a limited supply of health care and an unlimited demand for it they're inevitably forced to ration treatment."" Loder defines news as ""anything that's interesting."" He is critical of the idea of new journalism and argues that it has been used as a rhetorical shield for lazy journalism. He believes that new technology has fragmented American culture to the extent that no cinematic or musical success can unify it, as with past rock bands such as The Beatles. He also"
"guilty of fraud and manslaughter, since a patient died, allegedly as result of Simoncini's treatment. Massimo Mazzucco Massimo Mazzucco (born 20 July 1954 in Turin) is an Italian filmmaker who is known for producing documentary films such as ""The New American Century"" and ""Cancer -The Forbidden Cures"". Mazzucco is also the editor of luogocomune.net, an Italian news site concentrating mostly on the September 11 WTC attacks. Some criticism was directed to Mazzucco after his decision, starting September 2008, to publicize an alternative cancer therapy based on Sodium bicarbonate and proposed by Italian ex-doctor Tullio Simoncini. Said therapy is currently unproven,"
"in ""Sicko"", would not have been saved by the bone marrow transplant denied by his insurer. Stossel also questioned whether this treatment would have been given in a universal health care system, citing rationing and long waiting lists in Canada and Britain. Julie Pierce claimed Stossel never contacted her or her husband's doctors, and that the insurer denied other treatments as well and questioned Stossel's assertion that Tracy would not have received this in a socialized system, arguing that they are performed more frequently in Canada than in the U.S. Moore insisted in the movie as well as in an"
"63-year-old patient, dressed in hospital gown and slippers, wandering toward a mission on Skid Row (this footage was prominently featured in the Michael Moore 2007 documentary ""Sicko""). At the time that the complaint was filed, city officials said that 10 other hospitals were under investigation for similar issues. Kaiser settled the case, paying $5,000 in civil penalties and agreeing to spend $500,000 on services for the homeless. During that same period, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General settled 102 cases against U.S. hospitals which resulted in a monetary payment to the agency. In 2004,"
"Massimo Mazzucco Massimo Mazzucco (born 20 July 1954 in Turin) is an Italian filmmaker who is known for producing documentary films such as ""The New American Century"" and ""Cancer -The Forbidden Cures"". Mazzucco is also the editor of luogocomune.net, an Italian news site concentrating mostly on the September 11 WTC attacks. Some criticism was directed to Mazzucco after his decision, starting September 2008, to publicize an alternative cancer therapy based on Sodium bicarbonate and proposed by Italian ex-doctor Tullio Simoncini. Said therapy is currently unproven, and Simoncini was expelled from the Italian Medical Association after he was tried and found"
"disc entitled ""Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine"" warning its audience the ""dangers"" that socialized medicine could bring. The recording was widely played at Operation Coffee Cup meetings. Other pressure groups began to extend the definition from state managed health care to any form of state finance in health care. President Dwight Eisenhower opposed plans to expand government role in healthcare during his time in office. In more recent times, the term was brought up again by Republicans in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. In July 2007, one month after the release of Michael Moore's film ""Sicko"", Rudy Giuliani,"
"United States on December 25, 2015 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Ericson Core Ericson Core is an American film director and cinematographer, best known for directing the 2006 sports film ""Invincible"" and the 2015 film ""Point Break"". He has been director of photography on several films including ""Payback"", ""The Fast and the Furious"", and ""Daredevil"". Core attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, at age 16, and he then attended USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles to get a B.A. degree in film production and directing studies. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in"
"Edward Symes Edward (Teddy) Symes (born August 31, 1981) is a producer, director, art curator, and founder of Here and Now Films and Frontrunner Magazine. His 2008 documentary, Los Medicos, followed a US medical team working in a public hospital in rural Guatemala. Faced with a crowd of more than a thousand, and only one week to help, the film captures the humanitarian ideal as it collides head on with the scope of need and the complex nature of giving. The film premiered at the Jackson Hole Film Festival. He began his career as an assistant to Academy Award-winning documentary"
"physician waiting rooms and does not in her view adequately disclose its promotional nature. Gary Schwitzer, professor of health journalism at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and now an editor at Health News Review, has also criticized Gupta's reporting. A July 9, 2007, broadcast of CNN's ""The Situation Room"" aired a fact-check segment by Gupta on Michael Moore's 2007 film ""Sicko"" in which Gupta stated that Moore had ""fudged facts"". Immediately following the segment, Moore was interviewed live on CNN by Wolf Blitzer. Moore said that Gupta's report was inaccurate and biased, and Moore later posted a detailed"
"Alex Gibney Philip Alexander Gibney (; born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, ""Esquire"" magazine said Gibney ""is becoming the most important documentarian of our time"". His works as director include ""Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief"" (winner of three Emmys in 2015), """", """" (the winner of three primetime Emmy awards), """" (nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); """" (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); ""Casino Jack and the United States of Money""; and ""Taxi to the Dark Side"" (winner of"
"in the US in March 2013. Orner grew up in Melbourne, Australia and was educated at Mt Scopus Memorial College and Monash University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. Orner, along with actress Cate Blanchett, was one of only two Australians nominated for an Oscar in 2008. Most commentators predicted that Michael Moore's ""Sicko"" would win the Best Documentary category. However, to the surprise of many, Orner's ""Taxi to the Dark Side"", which examines US torture practices in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, received the award. Within hours, Orner created controversy by describing the US Government as"
"in their place. Try to relate."" ABC refused to air the film during the Academy Awards broadcast, citing the ad's controversial nature. In 2016, Phoenix starred in a campaign shoot, taking a stand against wool for PETA. In 2017, he executive-produced the documentary ""What the Health"", which premiered on June 16, 2017 on Netflix. The film claims to ""expose the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick"". Joaquin Phoenix Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (; né Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and activist. For"
"America – and give them an opportunity to try to change things"". On August 24, 2007, Russo died at the age of 64 of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Aaron Russo Aaron Russo (; February 14, 1943 – August 24, 2007) was an American entertainment businessman, film producer and director, and political activist. He was best known for producing such movies as ""Trading Places"", ""Wise Guys"", and ""The Rose"". Later in life, he created various Libertarian-leaning political documentaries including ""Mad as Hell"" and """". After a six-year battle with cancer, Russo died on August 24, 2007. Aaron"
"Plan 9 from Syracuse Plan 9 from Syracuse is a documentary by independent filmmaker Ryan Dacko about his attempt to gain attention of film producer Mark Cuban by staging a cross-country run from Syracuse, New York, to Hollywood. Despite a lack of experience in marathon running, Dacko left from Syracuse’s Eastwood Palace Theatre on August 15, 2006. He planned to reach Hollywood in 90 days, but problems with weather and unreliable support crews delayed his arrival until December 31, a 139-day journey. In the course of the run, he used the Internet to urge supporters to lobby Mark Cuban to"
"Sidney Salkow Sidney Salkow (June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000) was an American film director (more than 50 motion pictures), screenwriter, and television director. Salkow was educated at the City College of New York, Columbia University and Harvard Law School. After school he returned to New York City and became an assistant director of theater and playwright. Later on, he established himself as a theatrical director. In 1932, he joined up with the film industry starting as a dialogue director but soon later, after achieving the ranks, he became a prolific writer/director of such films as ""Sitting Bull"", ""Twice-Told"
"Her work is represented by Women Make Movies. Emmy Award for Best Documentary Kimberlee Acquaro Kimberlee Acquaro is an American filmmaker and photojournalist. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism. Acquaro has been nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy for Best Documentary. Her film GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA garnered international awards and was featured on HBO. Her work has also been featured on CNN, CBS, NPR, ""The Tavis Smiley Show"", ""The Voice of America,"" BBC/PRI's ""The World""; shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The"
"Linda Peeno Linda Peeno is an American physician, ethicist, and lecturer known for being a whistleblower against the American managed healthcare industry. Following employment as a medical reviewer for Humana and medical director at Blue Cross/Blue Shield Health Plans, she became a critic of how U.S. HMOs drive profits through denial of care. On May 30, 1996, Peeno testified before Congress as to the downside of managed care. In the 2002 Showtime docudrama ""Damaged Care"", Laura Dern portrayed Peeno as she transitioned from health care industry employee to whistleblower. In 2007, Peeno was prominently featured in the Michael Moore movie"
"have huge numbers of people who are also just a lay-off away from joining the ranks of the uninsured, or being purged by their insurance company, and winding up there."" The free-market think-tanks, such as the Manhattan Institute, say that ""Sicko"" misrepresented the health systems of Canada, the United Kingdom and Cuba, and criticized it for its negative portrayal of the American health insurance system compared to these countries. The National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative American think tank, has also been critical of Moore's claims, focusing particularly on lengthy waiting lists and unavailability of new treatments in the"