There were rumors for a while that SiCKO would be about the pharmaceutical industry.
In 2007, he appeared in an extended segment in the Michael Moore film Sicko giving comments about democracy, social responsibility and health care, notably, "If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people".
I need to apologize to Moore for the role I played in the insurance industry's public relations attack campaign against him and Sicko, which was about the increasingly unfair and dysfunctional U.S. health care system.
While promoting Sicko, Moore was questioned about this claim, and said: "Anybody who says that is a fucking liar.
I've written one about the sicko guy who used to lock me in a cupboard when I was a five-year-old at nursery.
In "Sicko," Michael Moore's film about greed and collusion in the American health-care system, he lists the price of college among the great injustices of American life.
Two years ago, a perfect print of Sicko was leaked online about a week before release, with blame being assigned to everyone from political opponents of Michael Moore to Michael Moore himself.
Tony Benn was interviewed in Sicko, Michael Moore's documentary film about the health industry in the US.
(Remember the Michael Moore movie, "Sicko"? That movie was exclusively about Americans bankrupted by medical bills. All of them had insurance. That's not going to happen anymore).
He's gone on to make films about America's healthcare system, Sicko, and the financial crisis, Capitalism: A Love Story, and, most notably, about 9/11, George W Bush, and the road to war, Fahrenheit 9/11.
