If my memory serves, Moore actually condoned piracy of Fahrenheit 9/11 so that his message would get out to more viewers.
This stance didn’t seem to hurt its box office. I don’t know if it will for this, either, because the in-theater watching experience is very different from the on-computer experience. Bringing a date to watch a pirated movie just doesn’t have the same appeal.
On the other hand, would you invite your date to watch a film called Sicko?
So we’ll see, but I don’t think this will hurt him as much as many here and in the ad biz believe.
Incidentally, one producer threatened to sue YouTube after excerpts from a commercial movie were posted there ... not realizing the filmmakers posted it to get publicity. So even if the production company sues it’s possible that it was a deliberate plant by Moore.
Incidentally, anyone reasonably well informed knows Cuba has a multi-tiered health system, and thanks to the publicity potential, I am sure Moore and his friends got the “head of state” version. This makes the premise of this movie entirely false.
On the other hand, if it costs $3,000 a day to keep someone in the hospital and run a few tests, as it did for me recently, there is clearly something horribly wrong with a system that is this absurdly expensive. I have yet to receive a convincing explanation of why health care is this expensive and whether we should research alternatives before we are pauperized in our old age by the present system.
i don’t think single payer is the answer, but I’d like to hear some fresh thinking about this issue.
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Good point. As someone once said, even BAD publicity is good publicity
Right. It’s all about having a party with your date or your liberal buddies and going to the movie to celebrate. So, Bowling For Columbine was good for a laugh and a few rants at the evil warmongering Republicans.
But do you really want to have a good, leftist, feel-good conservative-bashing night on the town at a movie called “Sicko”?
The DUmmies and the KOSmunists are auto-eroticating themselves in anticipation of placing their pimply faces, moonbat a$$es in a theater to support this maggot. But I mean that in the most non-offensive way.
Imported Spanish doctors?
An interesting note: In a typical hospital you will find doctors making six-figure incomes, and volunteers working for free.
The real reason that health care is so expensive is because of Gov't involvement. Medicaid/Medicair will pay only what they want to pay, regardless how much they are billed. The rest of us have to pick up the slack in the form of higher costs for medical care.
“I have yet to receive a convincing explanation of why health care is this expensive”
Simple.
You are paying for all the people who don’t have health insurance.