According to documentarian and wry everyman narrator Michael Moore, the ailing United States health insurance system may not be terminal, but it is certainly in critical condition. And in his latest dead-on skewering of a modern-day sociopolitical quagmire, “Sicko,” he gives the corrupt powers responsible the treatment they deserve using his customary sense of irony to buffer the side effects.
It’s the cleansing cinematic equivalent of a painful enema exposing the criminal immorality of the “managed care” insurance and pharmaceutical profiteers and the politicians in both parties who gobble up their graft. They’ve designed a structure that utterly excludes nearly 50 million of our fellow citizens and leaves the rest of us with inexplicably limited coverage and sky-high out-of-pocket bills at our most agonizing times of need.
