BMJ  2007;334:1338-1339 (30 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39258.421111.DB

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US health professionals demonstrate in support of Sicko

Janice Hopkins Tanne

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Doctors, nurses, and health workers across the United States are demonstrating in support of Sicko, Michael Moore's film attacking the US healthcare system. They are calling for a single payer system to replace the US private insurance programme, which leaves about 46 million people, or 16% of the population, uninsured. Health care is a hot issue in the coming presidential campaign.

The demonstrating health workers, calling themselves "Scrubs for Sicko" and wearing white coats or scrubs, handed out leaflets at the screenings of Moore's film. The film, scheduled to open across the United States on 29 June, was shown in previews in Washington, DC, Chicago, and Manchester, New Hampshire, the state where the earliest primary elections to select candidates for party nominations for president occur.

The film opened early in one cinema in New York city last week. There, on a warm sunny afternoon on Broadway, nurses, doctors, medical . . . [Full text of this article]

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