We Got The Bronze

Michael Moore is back in the news-- and the right-wing's sights-- for taking sick Ground Zero responders to Cuba to get treated, as part of his new documentary ('Sicko') exposing the U.S. healthcare system. Wanna bet that this movie will be controversial?

Time's Joe Klein remarks that Moore's faux-pas was bringing them to our old boogeyman Cuba rather than the more politically-okay Canada for treatment. Fair enough, but that doesn't make a difference in terms of the main message he's making about the American system... and perhaps this was the point? One could look at it as Moore purposely saying 'These guy got a better deal in stinky ol' Castroland than they did in these United States!' A stylistic quibble.

Michael Moore did something similar for his much-missed '90s television show "TV Nation" (which aired, believe it or not, on Fox). He did a segment called the 'Healthcare Olympics', doing a comparison of the U.S., Cuban, and Canadian healthcare systems as a competitive sporting event.

I thought it was worth watching again, given all this-