ConCERNed for Humanity and Cine Club

Thursday 26 April 2012 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

Sicko

By Michael Moore (USA, 2007)

123 min, original version English; French subtitles.

Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons’ reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, “Who are we?”

Organisation : ConCERNed for Humanity Club and CERN CineClub

Projection from DVD – entrance free – for info: http://cern.ch/Cineclub/.

by ConCERNed for Humanity and Cine Club