This is a pretty good review, despite some unwarranted praise of the Progressive Era muckrakers (themselves more often than not shills for connected corporate interests). Loder criticizes Moore, "a proud socialist" for being "a con man of a very brazen sort, and never more so than in this film. His cherry-picked facts, manipulative interviews (with lingering close-ups of distraught people breaking down in tears) and blithe assertions (how does he know 18 million people will die this year because they have no health insurance?) are so stacked that you can feel his whole argument sliding sideways as the picture unspools." He briefly takes on British, French, Canadian and Cuban health care. He quotes "James Christopher, the film critic of the Times of London": "What he hasn't done is lie in a corridor all night at the Royal Free [Hospital] watching his severed toe disintegrate in a plastic cup of melted ice. I have."
Thanks to Kenny Kasarda.
