A film and media phenomenon. A much more devastating Beppe Grillo and in planetary format. He attacked the arms market in Bowling for Columbine (winning an Oscar and paved the way for many other denunciatory films), and he frontally attacked George W. Bush's politics in Fahrenheit 9/11 (Palme d'Or at Cannes 2004 ). A histrionic and devastating style, which mixes laughter, emotion and indignation, rattling off official documents and figures together with exemplary cases. His dossier on the US health system, received triumphantly at Cannes, marks a further turning point in his activity. Because now the irreducible, iconoclast warrior of counterinformation has decided to take the field. In his own way of course. Not to get elected to Parliament, but to create a network of activists, supporters of counterinformation and democratic freedoms. For starters on your site www.michaelmoore.com lists the campaign contributions 'offered' by pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies to political candidates (both Democrats and Republicans of course). And he calls for the introduction of free medical assistance for all in the USA as well. There are twenty thousand people who have written to him telling of cases of denied healthcare. He has carefully chosen them, among those without coverage, those who paid for the insurance, but thanks to some quibble they were discharged, the heroes of Ground Zero, forgotten by all, the former firefighters who fell ill to save the people and to whom the State now refuses to pay the costs for illnesses contracted in service: and what a service!
US data
The US health care system is ranked 37th (out of 191) by the World Health Organization in terms of performance, despite being supported by the highest individual spending in the world. According to the Institute of Medicine, about 18,000 Americans will die in 2007 because they have no medical insurance.
