Michael Moore's New Film Leaked To BitTorrent

Jared writes "Michael Moore was afraid the Feds might sieze his new documentary Sicko, a scathing indictment of the US health-care system, because part of it was filmed in Cuba despite the US embargo. So he stashed a copy of the film in Canada just to be safe. He might as well not have bothered — the film has shown up on BitTorrent and P2P networks everywhere. So it's safe now."

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Re:Saw it a few days ago

[Quiet_Desperation]

But why does it have to be state funded? The think tanks and medical professional organizations of this world have publlished a bazillion papers on how to set up a fair and effective free market health care system. A lot of thought has gone into the issue. The reasons none of them get implemented is, as usual, fucking political jackassery.

The choice between what we have now and nationalized health care is a false dichotomy. There's many, many directions to go with this.

I'll also NEVER understand those so willing to put their health care in then hands of our dumbass government. That's just plain alien thinking to me.

Re:inertia, saving face, not rocking our boat

[c6gunner]

Huh? You can disagree all you want with Castro, you can't accuse him of having become anything like his predecessors.

Well you're right about that anyway. Under his predecessors, Cuba was a fairly safe, quite prosperous nation, well on it's way to becoming a major economic partner of the rest of the western world. Under Castro, after he finished executing tens of thousands of political prisoners, it turned into a communist shithole with repression of basic human freedoms being the norm, and a dysfunctional social structure on par with most other south american nations. It's interesting that you swallow so much of Castro's propaganda. You probably also think North Korea is a Workers Paradise, right?