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Filmmaker Moore to take on health care
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted July 26, 2004
Populist movie producer-director Michael Moore is planning a movie that will focus on the problems of the U.S. health care system, including the way that HMOs and hospitals treat patients with no coverage, according to a British newspaper.
Moore, whose political film "Fahrenheit 9/11" this year won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival and broke box office records for a documentary release, told the London Guardian his next project will involve him using a handheld camera to embarrass managed care plans and chain hospitals into treating patients who lack insurance. "I thought, 'What if we constructed a film where we could see how many lives we could save in 90 minutes, moving as fast as we can, and our only weapon is the camera?'," he told the newspaper.
Moore previously had alluded to a planned documentary named "Sicko," which was to be released in 2006, that would look specifically at the treatment of the mentally ill.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/07/26/bibf0726.htm.
