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For example, in "Sicko," Michael Moore at one point describes public schools as an example of something that shows we can trust government provision of services and at another point shows lousy public schools as an example of how bad America is compared to other countries.
Richard Vedder, Sounding Reasonable, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You can see it in Sicko, wherein Michael Moore extols the British national health-care system, the French way of life, and even the munificence of Cuba; you can hear it in all the admonitions from left-wing commentators that every other advanced society has government child care, or gun control, or mass transit, or whatever socialistic program or other infringement on our liberty we have had the wisdom to reject for decades.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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Donna Smith from the California Nurses Association (also featured in Sicko!), and U.S.
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These are the same folks who actually believed the one Cuban health clinic in Sicko actually represented the standard of care received by average citizens.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Timeless Appeal of Triumphalism 2010
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Donna Smith from the California Nurses Association (also featured in Sicko!), and U.S.
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The hospitals you saw in Sicko! was for the upper class and elite.
Michael Moore Making Fahrenheit 9/11 Sequel! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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As both harangue and movie tragicomedy, Sicko is socko.
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Early in Sicko he says, 'I always thought that the health insurance companies were here to help us,' a statement that the very existence of this film proves preposterous.
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"Sicko is more of a folkloristic comedy, in which Moore functions as a contempo Mark Twain or Will Rogers, a good-natured, wide-eyed American abroad, a voyeuristic tourist who goes from country to country, seeking comparisons and possible solutions to the critical conditions of the US health system - and way of life."
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Republican Thompson, a professional actor and former Tennessee senator, had criticized Moore for visiting and praising Cuba in Sicko, Moore's new movie assailing the U.S. health care system.
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