Government
"Sicko" well known, if not seen
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Sept. 24, 2007
Although only 4% of adults have seen "Sicko," Michael Moore's examination of the U.S. health system, another 42% had heard about the film, according to an Aug. 2-8 poll of 1,500 adults for the Kaiser Family Foundation. By comparison, 13% of those polled had seen Al Gore's global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," and an additional 48% had heard about that film.
Of those who had seen "Sicko," 54% said the film's central message is that the U.S. should have a free universal, government-financed health plan. Fifteen percent said the message is to keep our public/private system, 8% said the message is to have a market-driven system and 23% didn't know or didn't answer the question.
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