Cuba says Moore's 'SiCKO' highlights its humanism
Reuters | Saturday, 16 June 2007
PAGING DR CASTRO: Cuba's Communist government joined the debate surrounding Michael Moore's new documentary SiCKO, saying the film will allow the world to get a glimpse of the humaneness of its health system.
Cuba's Communist government joined the debate surrounding Michael Moore's new documentary SiCKO, saying the film will allow the world to get a glimpse of the humaneness of its health system.
The film, due to open in the United States on June 29, indicts the US health-care system as putting the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical companies ahead of public health concerns.
To make his point, Moore travelled to Cuba in March with three volunteers who worked in the ruins of New York's World Trade Centre after the September 11 attacks. He said the three are now suffering health problems tied to that work and are struggling to get appropriate treatment in the United States.
In Cuba, the film says, they received exemplary treatment at virtually no cost.
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