Documentary Draws Support for Single-Payer Health Care
Filmmaker Michael Moore's publicity tour for his new documentary "Sicko" has helped bring national attention to the California Nurses Association and other groups that support a single-payer health care system, NPR's "Morning Edition" reports.
The segment includes comments from:
- Moore; and
- Rose Anne DeMoro, executive director of CNA (Masters, "Morning Edition," NPR, 6/20).
Audio of the segment is available online.
KPBS' "These Days" on Tuesday included a discussion with John Myers, Sacramento bureau chief for KQED radio, about Moore's visit to Sacramento and other issues involving California politics (St. John, "These Days," KPBS, 6/19).
Audio of the segment is available online.
"Moore might have chosen to focus on the headaches inherent to a system in which most consumers and providers don't have much of a motive to control costs," a San Diego Union-Tribune editorial states. Moore also could have focused on "the huge complications posed by aging baby boomers," according to the editorial.
"Instead, he just points out the obvious -- we have a problem -- then pretends the problem would quickly go away if common sense drove U.S. policy instead of greed," the editorial states, concluding, "Sorry -- it's just not that simple" (San Diego Union-Tribune, 6/18).