Michael Moore's Movie, "Sicko", on the Movie Channel

Hubby and I just saw this movie for the first time last night, and it damning as far as the Nixon administration, with callous greed, putting our health care into the hands of a for profit system. The tapes of Nixon (in 1971) in the oval office, talking with an adviser about starting a Health Maintenance Organization system for Americans which would be modeled after Kaiser Permanente, and using practices of limiting care to maximize profits, show how cold bloodedly they viewed this new way of looking at sick people.

One year later, we ourselves joined Kaiser, as one option in the group policies offered, and that's when my own health care nightmare began. My back was never treated, and it's cascaded into what I fight to this day.

"Sicko" airs tonight on Show Time. The times are to be found HERE

Watch how this system materialized out of one businessman's idea of how to make a profit out of limiting care to his employees, to the gargantuan and ugly system we now suffer under. It's enough to make you sick.