So I watched that Michael Moore movie Sicko tonight. Aside from the fact almost all the sob stories of people with no insurance reminded me of somebody I knew from Iowa in some shape or fashion, I guess I'd get it a "meh". Don't get me wrong, Michael Moore has all his usual devices @ hand. And I'll be the first to admit the health care system in America is properly fucked (although I'd also admit I'm not convinced social healthcare is the way to go, funny how everyone thinks it has to be one or the other, but I digress).
He definitely pulls some hard punches in this. You see cases where people lose their spouses and children because their HMO's wouldn't cover treatments the movie says would have saved them.
But like all things Moore, you gotta take it with a grain of salt. He inspires passion and gets ya mad (and more's the pity if you watch it and don't happen to have health coverage). But in the end, while he hits some cookie-cutter talking points, it isn't very realistic.