Just finished watching a pirate download of Michael Moore's latest film, SiCKO, and it is an absolutely devastating critique of the US healthcare industry. I will warn you: this makes Farenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Coulumbine seem like lighthearted jabs. I have never cried watching one of his films, perhaps I'm thick-skinned, but I did this time. And I suspect you will too.

You might have heard all the hype about the visit to Cuba to get treatment for 9/11 rescue workers driven to near-poverty by lack of coverage, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. You'll hear a former insurance company medical director confess to making decisions that cost human life. Watch Americans die as hospitals argue about whether to care for them. See poor patients dumped in johnnies on skid row streets to get them out of beds. In the nation with the most advanced medical technology on earth.

Near the end, Moore sums up why the rest of the Western world manages to support universal health care: "They live in a world of we."

The film opens June 29, but you can go grab it. Links courtesy of Sheila Lennon's Subterranean Homepage News.