Digby, the Sage Of Santa Monica, has seen Michael Moore's SiCKO, and she is mad as hell:
First of all, it made me cry and a Michael Moore film has never made cry before. I've laughed and cheered and certainly gotten enraged, but even through all of those emotions in this film --- and there were plenty of them --- I remained choked up. I just couldn't get past the idea that people could make these life-ending and life-ruining decisions about other people --- for profit. It's so fundamentally at odds with what I think of as normal human empathy that on some levels it seems akin to being a concentration camp guard or an executioner.
It's a great post, and includes a fun review of the film by fellow Hullabaloo poster Dennis Hartley.
More below....
The film is having a huge impact, and not just on the public either:
(Apparently, the film is making the insurers howl too. Check out this post from Michael Moore today in which he posts an internal Blue cross memo. The rep they sent to see the movie and report back wrote: "You'd have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore's movie.")
Speaking for myself here, were this true, it would mean that the HMOs are being run by either zombies or the undead, but then my sense of humor is a flakier than Digby's.
"What Digby Said" has become an honored tradition of posts in the Blogosphere, and this diary's my modest contribution to that tradition. So I'll close with the traditional 5 words...
Go Read The Rest Yourself.