Michael Moore's Sicko

Michael Moore's Sicko

NEJMでMichael Mooreの映画Sickoが取り上げられています（無料記事）。同雑誌では、ブッシュ政権下の「健康保険制度」の改革案について取り上げていました。合わせ読んでみるとよいと思います。

Healing Our Sicko Health Care System
Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D.

[Extract]
There is a scene in Sicko — Michael Moore's controversial new film about U.S. health care — that captures both the power and the limits of Moore's cinematic polemic. A mother is speaking about her 18-month-old daughter, Mychelle, who became ill one evening with vomiting, diarrhea, and a high fever. At the nearest emergency room, Mychelle is treated by a physician who suspects, rightly, that she has a life-threatening bacterial infection. But rather than give her antibiotics, the doctor calls her insurer, whose physician-gatekeeper tells him that Mychelle is not covered at the hospital and must be taken to another...
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