From REUTERS:
"Director Michael Moore says the U.S. health care system is driven by greed in his new documentary "SiCKO", and asks of Americans in general, "Where is our soul?"
"He also said he could go to jail for taking a group of volunteers suffering ill health after helping in the September 11, 2001 rescue efforts on an unauthorized trip to Cuba, where they received exemplary treatment at virtually no cost.
"The controversial film maker is back in Cannes, where he won the film festival's highest honor in 2004 with his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11".
"In "SiCKO" he turns his attention to health, asking why 50 million Americans, 9 million of them children, live without cover, while those that are insured are often driven to poverty by spiraling costs or wrongly refused treatment at all.
"But the movie, which has taken Cannes by storm, goes further by portraying a country where the government is more interested in personal profit and protecting big business than caring for its citizens, many of whom cannot afford health insurance.
"I'm trying to explore bigger ideas and bigger issues, and in this case the bigger issue in this film is who are we as a people?" Moore told reporters after a press screening.
"Why do we behave the way we behave? What has become of us? Where is our soul?"
Michael, I would venture the opinion that some of us were born without souls, and some of us have sold whatever souls we might have had. Unfortunately, this describes the few who have all the money, power, and control.
And at this point I'm reminded of a not-so-rhetorical question Bill Maher asked one time when he was being interviewed (by Larry King IIRC): "WHY are we so sick?" To this, I would answer: Because the PTB are shittering our food supply, they're shittering our water supply, and they're shittering the air we breathe.
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