Today’s edition of the Health Wonk Review, hosted by Jay Norris of Colorado Health Insurance Insider, leads off with posts from around the health policy blogosphere on Michael Moore’s controversial movie, SiCKO. Want to know what John Goodman thinks of the movie? Read on. The Health Wonk Review is a biweekly compendium of the best of health policy blogging.

UPDATE: Another entry today in the policy wonk debate surrounding SiCKO is Matthew Holt’s “Spot-On” column. He writes:

There’s so much wrong with Michael Moore’s Sicko that it’s embarrassing, especially for a health care pundit, to reveal the emotional punch it gives you. You know that your head is being bowled over by your heart, and you also know that it’s very, very cleverly done. But that doesn’t make the message any less powerful.

In the end it’s emotional half-truths that seem to move us so perhaps Sicko will have the desired effect — getting this nation’s politicians off the dime on universal coverage. Of course, the contrast Moore’s setting up is not to the rational debate that you may get from me here at Spot-on, or in the pages of Health Affairs. The contrast that Sicko sets for itself is with decades of right-wing propaganda.

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