Expecting a documentary? Expect something else

Michael Moore is a funny man. So funny in fact that he can make fun of horrible things and receive millions of dollars, prizes and applause in return. Now he is working on a "documentary" about the American health care system. He is asking people to turn themselves in to talk about their grief with the system. His sales' speech in his own words:

Have you ever found yourself getting ready to file for bankruptcy because you can't pay your kid's hospital bill, and then you say to yourself, "Boy, I sure would like to be in Michael Moore's health care movie!"?

Or, after being turned down for the third time by your HMO for an operation they should be paying for, do you ever think to yourself, "Now THIS travesty should be in that 'Sicko' movie!"?

Or maybe you've just been told that your father is going to have to just, well, die because he can't afford the drugs he needs to get better – and it's then that you say, "Damn, what did I do with Michael Moore's home number?!"

Of course there is nothing wrong with what he's doing. He is creating a movie that will describe the way Michael Moore feels about the American health care system. He is a socialist, he wants to nationalize the health care system and he is making a movie to make that point. Everyone knows this. No-one really looks at his work as a document of something like for example the wild life documentaries on the National Geographic channel - not anymore. Michael Moore uses his extensive network and popular website to draw out a few of the few who have a beef with their health care system and have, for some reason or another, received poor medical care.

But this should not cloud people's minds more than necessary. The fact is that the American health care system is the biggest health care money machine in the world, the heart and soul of all medical research in the world, the ground from which most of the latest and drugs and medical treatments grow in, and, all things considered even, an excellent provider of excellent health care.

Of course there are faults in the system. They are many and grave. But the big picture prevails despite of them. Michael Moore wants to nationalize the health care system, and use his wittiness, millions of dollars and video recorders to make that point. Good for him. But thats just about all thats good about his cause.