"I think one movie can make a difference".
Michael Moore

Over the weekend I watched Michael Moore's most recent movie Sicko. It follows the workings of the US healthcare and reflects on the country's aversion to universal healthcare. (Warning: There are many kitsch clips of socialist musical numbers). The US is compared and contrasted to the likes of France, Canada and England. As Che Guevara's daughter notes, it is a little difficult to understand why a country that is several times wealthier than Cuba does not take better care of its people.

And while Moore might get criticized for breaking US trade laws when he took a group of sick American citizens to a Cuban hospital for treatment at no cost, it is hard not to admire his audacity for pulling attention to what is clearly an under reported problem in one of the wealthiest countries of the world, and in a society that is allowing its wealth gap to widen to the detriment of its poorest and least reprensented people.