Sicko

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Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore that investigates the American health care system, focusing on its for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industry.

The film compares the non-universal and for-profit U.S. system with the universal and non-profit systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. Sicko cites the United States as the only industrialized nation that does not provide universal health care to its citizens, highlights cases in which insured individuals were denied care, and condemns for-profit health care for maximizing profit at the expense of patient care.

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Sicko opened to positive reviews, but also generated criticism and controversy.

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Michael Moore declared "he doesn't agree with the copy right laws", and so he "doesn't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people, as long as there not doing it to make a profit."