Whatever you think of Michael Moore, it’s clear that his upcoming movie “Sicko” is about to kick-start a major debate over health care in this country. On a related note, I’m told – no link yet – that Pennsylvania Rep. Kathy Manderino, D-Phila, is seeking co-sponsors for a single-payer bill, the “Family and Business Healthcare Security Act,” which is to be introduced right around the time “Sicko” opens. Strike while the iron is hot.
Update: Ezra Klien on what the movie is really all about:
Moore’s movie is only superficially about health care. It uses the subject — and also sick days, and vacations, and child care, and maternal support policies — as a way to critique unthinking American exceptionalism, to challenge the tautology that states that the way we do things is the best way to do things because … it’s the way we do things. The particulars of the account all add up to the larger question: Is the America we live in the America we think we live in, and the America we want to live in?
