[R-G] Michael Moore Comes to Iran

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

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Michael Moore comes to Iran

Service: Art
1386/04/11
07-02-2007
16:33:36
News Code :8604-06754

ISNA - Tehran
Service: Art

TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is
to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the
first international documentary film festival held here.

This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.

According to reports in SICKO, Michael Moore interviews Americans who
have been denied treatment by the U.S. health care insurance
companies, whose policies are designed to maximize profits at the
expense of providing essential care. The consequences of these
individuals' plights range from bankruptcy to the unnecessary deaths
of loved ones.

Moore then looks at universal free health care systems in Canada,
France, Britain, and Cuba, debunking all the fears (lower quality of
care, poorer compensation for doctors, big-government bureaucracy)
that have been used to dissuade Americans from establishing such a
system here. The roots of those health care systems are explored, and
our failure to establish free health here care is traced to a)
President Richard Nixon's deceptive support of the then-emerging HMOs
pursuing huge profits and b) subsequent pressures for Congress to
sacrifice sound health care in favor of corporate profit.

A group of Americans who became ill from volunteering at 911 Ground
Zero, but were refused health coverage for their illnesses, are
ferried by Moore to Cuba, where they receive the top-rate, free care
one would hope they'd get here at home.

In his interviews, historical reportage, and typical sarcastic wit,
Moore soundly condemns American health insurance companies,
pharmaceutical companies, and the politicians who have been paid
millions to do their bidding. He makes the case that there is
something wrong with Americans that we cannot learn from the successes
of other countries in providing better quality-of-health than we enjoy
in the USA.

Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan April 23 1954. He studied
journalism at the University of Michigan-Flint, but also pursued other
hobbies such as Gun shooting, for which he even won a competition.
Michael started working as an editor for the journal of the University
he attended at the beginning to his journalism career. He then turned
to filmmaking, and to earn the money for the budget of his first film
Roger & Me (1989) he ran neighborhood bingo games. He eventually got
himself into leading a string of documentaries and TV series all
predominantly around the same subject; attacks on politicians and
business corporations, getting his opinion around and about. He landed
his first big hit with Bowling for Columbine (2002) about the bad
points of the freedom of weapon holding in America, which earned him
an Oscar and a big reputation. He then shook the world with his even
bigger hit Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) - making fun of President George W.
Bush. Michael is known for having the guts to give his opinion in
public, which not many people are courageous enough to do, and for
that is respected by many.

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News Code: 8604-06754

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Yoshie