As I left the theater in Champaign, Illinois where I saw the film, young college students seeking signatures on petitions for guaranteed health care greeted me. Their enthusiasm for the cause reminded me that the film's most compelling thought was expressed by the American woman living in Paris who said to Moore, "In the United States, the people fear the government. In France, the government fears the people." Certainly if European countries have more extensive public health care systems than the United States, it's because of their history of stronger unions and mass organizations. It's because of their exercise of democracy.
This is the power of SiCKO. It wants us to believe in our own power as Americans to change society for the better.
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