"Sicko," Michael Moore's new documentary about the American health care system, is out, so now movie-goers can see for themselves how the Cuban health care system is portrayed.
I am in no way going to excuse Moore's behavior - I still think he is using his general anti-Americanism to give the Cuban dictatorship an propaganda victory - but news reports today reveal one important detail about the film that had been missing from earlier discussions.
The purpose of the trip to Cuba, according to news reports on an early screening of the film, was so that emergency workers who got sick after 9/11 could get treatment at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo, where Moore said officials have bragged about the care they are providing suspected al-Qaida terrorists.
When he got no response, Moore took the patients to a Cuban hospital in Havana, where, with the cameras rolling, the Americans received their treatments.
Maybe for his next film, Moore can return to Cuba and make a film about the the medical care the prisoners -especially the prisoners of conscience, prisoners who suffer outside the glare of Hollywood megalomaniacs - are receiving in the jails outside of Gitmo's gates.
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