There’s almost another whole film’s worth of extra material here, too. “This Country Beats France” is a missing chapter from the movie about another nation whose compassionate concern for its citizens has resulted in what could be the closest thing humans can get to paradise on Earth. Another missing chapter, “Uniquely American,” celebrates the generosity of the people of the U.S., who come through when their leaders don’t. In “What If You Worked for G.E. in France?” Moore talks to a French employee of General Electric and discovers that all the moaning we hear from American corporations about how expensive it is to take care of employees and treat them as something other than slave labor seems not to be an issue when decency is mandated by law. And don’t miss the extended interview with British politician Tony Benn -- he’s the one in the film who notes how easy it is for a fearful, exhausted, indebted populace to be cowed by its government, among many other readily evident truths that few public figures seem to talk about; Benn makes you hope that there must be at least one or two other politicians who actually have the public interest at heart.

There’s plenty more, too. And it all only makes Sicko even more insolent, muckracking, and infuriating. Which is exactly what a movie like this is supposed to do.

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