Jack Lessenberry's must-read review of Sicko instructs that Michael Moore's "masterpiece" brings home the depth of America's sickness.
But are the sick and apathetic up to a revolution?
Sicko, however, is an utter masterpiece. Simultaneously brilliant, acidly funny and terribly anger-inspiring, it makes you want to start a revolution — and worry at some deep level that the oppressed are far too beaten-down to care. . .
Thirty-five years ago, in the same week Watergate happened, a New Left radical said something I never forgot.
"Eventually the United States and the Soviet Union will become mirror images of each other," he told a bunch of us college students. "They will get color TV, and we will get bugging, inefficiency and long lines." That memory came back to me when Sicko showed how crowded hospitals bundle confused, disoriented and indigent patients into taxis and dump them out on Skid Row, in front of a mission. . . What's pretty clear is that we'd better start some form of revolution that involves single-payer health care, or this nation is doomed.
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