There's something wrong when the idea of health reform generates more attention from Hollywood than from our politicians in Tallahassee or Washington, D.C. But with this summer's release of Michael Moore's Sicko, that's certainly the case.
I watched the two-hour movie not just as a health-care consumer, but also as someone who has spent the past two decades writing for major newspapers and magazines about the many problems of the U.S. health-care system and the scant attempts at a major overhaul. It's been a rewarding career, but also quite depressing.
Nearly 15 years have passed since President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton made the last real effort to give all Americans health coverage by attempting to enact a new national health-care policy. Since then, by almost every measure, our health-care system has only worsened.
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