This is the essential ill that Sicko addresses, in an eruption that's the most unruly and uncategorizable part of the whole movie, and the most unmistakably heartfelt. You want the truth? Moore can handle the truth.

Sicko is wildly comic while tearing apart the country's health care system.

If other countries can provide their people with universal health care, why can't we? If we can't, who are we?

The filmmaker has the habit ... of never going to the root of a problem. The lack of depth and seriousness, the extreme limitations of his conceptions are enormously debilitating.