[Marxism] Michael Moore: An Awesome First Night for "SiCKO"

[Sayan Bhattacharyya]

On 7/1/07, Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net> wrote:

Though the parts shot in
> Cuba are of interest, as is the interview with the daughter
> of Che Guevara, physician Aleida Guevara, the key to this
> entire film is the idea that health care is a human right.



Just saw the film today. Impressive.

I've a question: there's been some criticism in the press (e.g. in a signed
editorial in the New York Times) that Moore "lied" -- that the treatment
center where the people he took to Cuba got treated, was actually NOT one
for the common people in Cuba but one for "tourists" and Cuban dignitaries.
However, on the soundtrack of the film Moore clearly says that he asked the
Cubans to provide "not any more and not any less" than the health care that
any ordinary Cuban would receive.

Does anyone know if there's any basis to this charge by the New York Times?