Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: Hospital, Sicko, Titicut Follies, The Final Inch, Under Our Skin, Innerstate, Thin, Children of the Stars, A Walk to Beautiful, Unknown White Male, Living With Fibromyalgia, Living Downstream, No Hair Day, A Delicate Balance - The Truth, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, 9000 Needles, 65 Redroses, Before Flying Back to the Earth, In the Family, America's Medicated Kids, Food Matters, Smile Pinki, The English Surgeon, Chernobyl Heart, The Business of Being Born, State of Denial, Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita, Dying to Live, VD Blues, Home For Life, So Much So Fast, Are the Kids Alright?, Jabe Babe - A Heightened Life, Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing, A Story of Healing, House Calls, You Don't Have to Die, Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements, Shots in the Dark, Vietnam Nurses, Louis Theroux: Under the Knife, Going Blind, Libby, Montana, Walking Troubles of Organic Hemiplegy, Somebody Waiting, True Guts, Psychiatric Nursing, Heart to Heart, Toxic Clouds of 9/11, My Left Breast. Excerpt: Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. Sicko was made on a budget of approximately $9 million, and grossed $24.5 million theatrically in the United States. This box office result met the official expectation of The Weinstein Company, which hoped for a gross in line with Bowling for Columbine's $21.5 million US box office gross. According to Sicko, almost fifty million Americans are uninsured while the remainder, who are covered, are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. Interviews are conducted with people who thought they had adequate coverage but were denied care. Former employees of insurance companies describe cost-cutting initiatives that give bonuses to insurance company physicians and others to find reasons for the company to avoid meeting the cost of medically necessary treatments for policy holders, and thus increase company profitability. In Canada, Moore describes the case of Tommy Douglas, who was voted the greatest Canadian in 2004 for his contributions to the Canadian health system. Moore also interviews a microsurgeon and people waiting in the emergency room of a Canadian public hospital. Against the backdrop of the history of the American health care debate, opponents of universal health care are set in the context of 1950s-style anti-communist propaganda. A 1960s record distributed by the American Medical Association, narrated by Ronald Reagan, warns that universal health care could lead to lost freedoms and socialism. In response, Moore shows that socialized public services like police, fire service, the United States Postal Service, public education and community libraries have not led to communism in the United States. The