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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments and social hour at 
  6:30 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after 
 the film.\n\nSICKO\nby Michael Moore\n\nThis is a straight-from-the-heart 
 portrait of the crazy and often cruel U.S. health care system, told from 
 the vantage point of everyday people faced with extraordinary and bizarre 
 challenges in their quest for basic health coverage.  The film brings the 
 devastating cost and state of health care in this country to light 
 beginning with people who have lived the American dream and expected to 
 live their retirement independently and in comfort.  Early on, the film 
 portrays a working couple forced to sell their home to meet medical 
 obligations not covered by their insurance policy.  In the tradition of 
 Mark Twain or Will Rogers, Michael Moore uses humor to tell these 
 compelling stories, leading us to conclude that an alternative system is 
 the only possible answer.\n\nHighlights of the film are, first, the 
 insurance companies that are out to make a profit from people’s sickness. 
  The profit is at the expense of the medical coverage and preventative care 
 they can deny.  Doctors receive bonuses for the most claims they can deny! 
 The next spotlight is on the pharmaceutical companies which are so 
 expensive that many people must continue working well beyond their 
 retirement years to pay for pills.   The next spotlight focuses on the 
 politics of health care:  fourteen staffers who worked on the Seniors’ 
 Prescription Bill moved on to lucrative lobby positions with the same 
 companies;  and Billy Tauzin was hired as CEO for Pharma at $2,000,000 a 
 year.  The film shows us that in Canada, Great Britain, France, and Norway 
 people receive first rate health care for free from first rate physicians 
 — without having to sell their homes.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the 
 corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/22/18662041.php
SUMMARY:Sicko
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/22/18662041.php
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