Rick accidentally saws the tips off two fingers, but can only afford to have one sewn back on. A 9/11 volunteer is denied the care he needs for the lung condition he developed while pulling people from the rubble of the World Trade Center. A man stitches up a gash in his own knee because professional care would be too costly.
These are just a few vignettes from Sicko, director Michael Moore’s polemic on healthcare in the US. It says a lot that Moore found it easy to find people treated so badly by the system. The quality of healthcare in the US depends on…
