Michael Moore's Controversial Sicko Scheduled for Allen Theatre

Sicko is first of LVC's Fall 2010 Colloquium film showings, launching Sept. 7 at 6 p.m.

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ANNVILLE, PA (08/30/2010)(readMedia)-- Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore's award-winning 2007 documentary, Sicko, explores the darker side of America's profit-oriented health care system, comparing it to free and universal care in Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. Moore's exposé, scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. in the Allen Theatre, is part of the Lebanon Valley College fall 2010 Colloquium series on Health. Tickets are $1 for non-LVC students and $3 for the general public. The film is free to LVC students.

In this controversial film, Moore exposes how America's health care system is not necessarily focused on saving lives. He examines the history of health maintenance organizations (HMOs), from President Richard Nixon's approval of this system to President Bill Clinton's failed efforts at health care reform in the 1990s. Moore manages to show the corruption found in the U.S. political system, by comparing the American health care experience to that of expatriates receiving care in another country.

Moore's film provides an appropriate backdrop to the ongoing debate about the recently passed U.S. health care reform. It is being shown in conjunction with executive producer Meghan O'Hara's colloquium conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 15.