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Today is Friday June 22nd and I'm your host Anastasia Yuglova.

A Cato Capital Hill briefing yesterday presented clips from Michael Moore's new documentary, Sicko,

along with footage from competitor films that present a different take on what's plaguing American patients.

In today's podcast, a recap of the event with Cato's health policy director, Michael Cannon.

You hosted an event on the Hill featuring movie clips from Sicko and a few other movies that

challenged the views presented in Moore's film.

Tell me how it went.

Well, Michael Moore's film Sicko, the U.S. Healthcare System, is going to be released next week.

There is a premiere in Washington, D.C. last night.

And so we put together this event to show some clips from Sicko,

some clips from some alternative films that are more

critical of foreign health care systems and we let that serve as a launching pad for a discussion

about the relative strengths of the U.S. health care system and other...

What were some of the US health care system and other.

What were some of the films that you featured?

Well there's a group called the Motion Picture Institute that put together a series of

short films about health care in Canada, health care in the US.

This one film that we showed today was called a short course

in brain surgery.

It was about a man in Ontario who couldn't get the MRI

that he needed in time and couldn't get the surgery that he needed in time and couldn't get the surgery that he needed in time and ended up having to come to the United States for those procedures.

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