Sicko is a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth.

Michael Moores latest film - this time on the problems with America's privatised health care system. Moore's film investigates the painful realities of living in a country where you literally pay for health care or die. The privatised system shows what happens to real people when profit before people becomes the mantra, and health care becomes just another commodity - if you can afford it: good for you; if you can't: too bad. Some of the examples in the movie include:The machinist and his newspaper editor wife who had to sell their home and move into a cramped room in their daughter's house when his heart attacks and her cancer caused their medical bills to soar. The woman whose husband died after their insurer refused to authorise a bone marrow transplant from his younger brother because it was "experimental."In a sense, it is also a commentary on what happens in a society where the founding ideas of community and caring for one another have collapsed, and are instead replaced by greed and self-interest.

It received rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival.'