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Country. United States. Language. English. Budget9 million2Box office3. Sicko is a 2. 00. American documentary film made by filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the for profit, non universal U. S. system with the non profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. Sicko was made on a budget of approximately 9 million,3 and grossed 2. United States. 4 This box office take exceeded the official expectation of The Weinstein Company, which had hoped for a gross in line with Bowling for Columbines 2. US box office gross. SynopsiseditAccording to Sicko, almost fifty million Americans are uninsured while the remainder, who are covered, are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. Furthermore, Sicko says the U. S. health in general is ranked 3. World Health Organization with certain health measures, such as infant mortality and life expectancy, equal to countries with much less economic wealth. Interviews are conducted with people who thought they had adequate coverage but were denied care. Former employees of insurance companies describe cost cutting initiatives that give bonuses to insurance company physicians and others to find reasons for the company to avoid meeting the cost of medically necessary treatments for policy holders, and thus increase company profitability. In Canada, a citizen describes the case of Tommy Douglas, who was voted the greatest Canadian in 2. Canadian health system. Moore also interviews a microsurgeon and people waiting in the emergency room of a Canadian public hospital. Former premier Christy Clark will step down as leader of the B. C. Liberal Party on Aug. A5E0lT9iUfSpeuHwCae9ijmNcyX.jpg' alt='Liberal Arts Full Movie' title='Liberal Arts Full Movie' />Against the backdrop of the history of the American health care debate, opponents of universal health care are set in the context of 1. A 1. 95. 0s record distributed by the American Medical Association, narrated by Ronald Reagan, warns that universal health care could lead to lost freedoms and socialism. In response, Moore shows that socialized public services like police, fire service, the United States Postal Service, public education and community libraries have not led to communism in the United States. The origins of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1. John Ehrlichman and President Richard Nixon on February 1. A Liberal MP who flew CF18 fighter jets is taking exception to a Conservative leadership hopefuls Top Guninspired promotion of himself. Stephen Fuhr, who. Stephen Bannon has an outsized influence yet is rarely heard from in the press. This week, journalist Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect got an unexpected phone. On the uses of a liberal education 1. September 1, 1997 Harpers Magazine. Mark Edmundson. A college student. Ehrlichman is heard telling Nixon that. Nixon remarked fine and not bad. This led to the expansion of the modern health maintenance organization based health care system. Connections are highlighted between Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Ph. RMA, the lobbying arm of the largest drug companies in the United States, lobbying groups in Washington D. C., and the Congress. Hillary Clinton, a champion of the Clinton health care plan, is shown as a crusader for change, appointed to reform the health care system in the United States by her husband, newly elected President Bill Clinton. Her efforts are met with heavy handed criticisms by Republicans on Capitol Hill, and right wing media throughout the country, who characterize her plan as the harbinger of socialism. When she is defeated, her punishment is to never speak of it again while in the White House. In the United Kingdom, a country whose National Health Service is a comprehensive publicly funded health care system, Moore interviews patients and inquires about in hospital expenses incurred by patients, only to be told that there are no out of pocket payments. Moore visits a typical UK pharmacy, where pharmaceuticals are free of charge for all persons in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and under 1. England, and subsidized in most cases for everyone else in England only a fixed amount of 6. NHS. Further, NHS hospitals employ a cashier, part of whose job is to reimburse low income patients for their out of pocket travel costs to the hospital. Interviews include an NHS general practitioner, an American woman residing in London, and British politician Tony Benn. In France, Moore visits a hospital and interviews the head of obstetrics and gynaecology and a group of American expatriates. Moore rides with the SOS Mdecins, a 2. French medical service that provides house calls by physicians. Moore discovers that the French government provides many social services and rights in addition to health care, such as daycare for 1 an hour, free college education, a minimum five weeks paid vacation by law, vacation, and neonatal support that includes cooking, cleaning, and laundry services for new mothers. Returning to the United States, interviews disclose that 91. September 1. 1, 2. PTSD induced bruxism. Unable to receive and afford medical care in the United States, the 91. Moores friends in the film needing medical attention, set sail from Miami to Cuba on three speedboats in order to obtain free medical care provided for the enemy combatants detained at the U. S. Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. The group arrives at the entrance channel to Gitmo and Moore uses a megaphone to request access, pleading for the 91. The attempt ceases when a siren is blown from the base, and the group moves on to Havana, where they purchase inexpensive medicine and receive free medical treatment at the elite Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital. Providing only their names and birth dates, the volunteers are hospitalized and receive medical attention. Before they leave, the 91. Havana fire station. Finally, Moore addresses the audience, emphasizing that people should be taking care of each other, no matter the differences. To demonstrate his personal commitment to this theme, Moore decides to help one of his biggest critics, Jim Kenefick. According to a blog posting, Kenefick feared he would have to shut down his anti Moore website because he needed US 1. Not wanting the U. S. health care system to trump Keneficks ability to express his opinion, Moore sends Kenefick the money anonymously. This film ends with Moore walking towards the United States Capitol with a basket full of his clothes, sarcastically saying he will get the government to do his laundry until a better day comes for the sick and hopeless who are unable to receive health care. ReleaseeditSicko premiered on May 1. Cannes Film Festival, receiving a 1. Grand Theatre Lumiere. The North American premire of Sicko was held in London, Ontario where some scenes from the movie were filmed, at the Silver City movie theatre at Masonville Place on June 8, 2. Moore in attendance. It also had an early premire in Washington DC. June 2. 0, two days before its U. S. release, with Moore appearing at a Capitol Hill press conference to promote the film. The European premire was held in Great Britain on October 2. Odeon Leicester Square as part of the 5. London Film Festival. Moore was to introduce the film, but remained in the United States due to a family issue, sending a lengthy letter to be read in his absence. Part of the letter gave thanks to the Rt Hon. Tony Benn, featured in the film, who delivered a short speech before the showing. Box officeeditMade on a budget of 9 million,1. Sicko earned 4. 5 million on its opening weekend. In 4. 41 theaters, it took in an average of 1. As of February 2. University of Richmond Wikipedia. University of Richmond. Motto. Verbum Vitae et Lumen Scientiae LatinMotto in English. Word of life and the light of knowledge. Type. Private. Established. Endowment2. 1. 90 billion 2. President. Ronald Crutcher. Academic staff. 61. Students. 4,1. 313Undergraduates. Postgraduates. 87. Location. Richmond, Virginia, U. S. Campus. Suburban, 3. Colors. UR Blue and UR Red4         Athletics. NCAA Division I A 1. Watch Jack Irish: Black Tide Online Freeform here. Nickname. Spiders. Affiliations. Mascot. Webst. UR the Spider5Websitewww. The University of Richmond UR or U of R is a private, nonsectarian, liberal artscollege located in the city of Richmond, Virginia, with small portions of the campus extending into surrounding Henrico County. University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,3. School of Arts and Sciences, the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the University of Richmond School of Law and the School of Professional Continuing Studies. HistoryeditFounded by Virginia Baptists in 1. Rev. Edward Baptist, an 1. HampdenSydney College,6 the school was incorporated ten years later as Richmond College. After 1. 83. 4, the Columbia House was the main academic building of Richmond College. During the American Civil War, the entire student body formed a regiment and joined the Confederate army. Richmond Colleges buildings were used as a hospital for Confederate troops and later as a Unionbarracks. The college invested all of its funds in Confederate war bonds, and the outcome of the war left it bankrupt. In 1. 86. 6, James Thomas donated 5,0. The T. C. Williams School of Law opened in 1. In 1. 89. 4, the college elected Dr. Frederic W. Boatwright president. President Boatwright would serve for 5. He is most remembered for raising the funds needed to move the college in 1. Westhampton area of Richmond, and in doing so created Westhampton College for women. The universitys main library, Boatwright Memorial Library, is named in Boatwrights honor. Symbolically, the library and its soaring academic gothic tower occupy the highest spot on the grounds. Its grounds were landscaped in 1. Warren H. Manning under the supervision of Charles Gillette. The institution was renamed University of Richmond in 1. Richmond College. The distinction of colleges was phased out in the late 2. Westhampton and the Richmond sides. Richmond College in 1. Richmonds West End. Rummell, Richard 1. In 1. 94. 9, the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business opened, followed by the School of Continuing Studies in 1. In 1. 96. 9, when financial issues threatened closing the university or turning it over to the Commonwealth of Virginia, E. Claiborne Robins Sr., a trustee and alumnus, donated 5. In constant dollars, it remains among the largest. Robins goal was to make Richmond one of the best private universities in the country. In partnership with the Universitys president E. Bruce Heilman and development director H. Gerald Quigg the 1. Universitys total endowment at the time one of the highest in the country. During World War II, Richmond was one of 1. V 1. 2 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission. In 1. 98. 7, a donation of 2. Robert S. Jepson, Jr. Jepson School of Leadership Studies. The school, which opened in 1. U. S. In 1. 99. 0, the academic missions of Richmond and Westhampton Colleges were combined to form the School of Arts and Sciences. On October 1. 5, 1. George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot came to campus for the first ever town hall televised presidential debate, viewed by 2. Addressing a crowd of nearly 9,0. Showtime Full Don Juan Tenorio Online Free. President Obama visited the University of Richmond to present the American Jobs Act on September 1. Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher is the current president of the University of Richmond, becoming the 1. July 1, 2. 01. 5. He is former member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He is recognized to be the first cellist to receive the doctor of musical arts degree from Yale, where he also earned his masters degree. On, February 2. 3, 2. University of Richmond announced to the student body via email that the board of trustees elected Ronald Crutcher as the 1. He took office 1 July 2. Robins Center on 3. October 2. 01. 5. The Henry Mansfield Cannon Memorial Chapel, North Court, and Ryland Hall were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2. SchoolseditSchool of Arts ScienceseditAll Richmond undergraduate students begin their course work in the School of Arts Sciences A S, which offers 3. After one full year of study, students may decide to pursue majors in the other undergraduate schools, though 7. A S. Opportunities abound in the School of Art Sciences, as students have the chance to study abroad and pursue internships or research while gaining an education that will prepare them for a variety of careers or graduate programs. Robins School of BusinesseditThe Robins School of Business was established in 1. It is named after alumnus E. Claiborne Robins. Ranked 1. 2th nationally overall and tied for first in academic quality by Business. Week,1. 9 the Robins School is the only fully accredited, top ranked undergraduate business school that also is part of a top ranked liberal arts university. In the 2. 00. 9 Business. Week review of part time MBA programs, the Robins school ranked 3rd in the mid Atlantic region and 1. Admission into the Robins School of Business is granted to students who have completed basic Accounting, Economics and Math courses at the end of three semester while maintaining a Grade Point Average of 2. Jepson School of Leadership StudieseditThe Jepson School of Leadership Studies was founded to address a perceived need in the modern world for the academic study of leadership. The school blends a curriculum of economics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology and religion so that students can learn conceptual tools that support the exercise of leadership in varied settings. As of 2. 01. 6, the Jepson School remains as the only school of its kind in the United States that is completely devoted to the study of leadership. School of LaweditChartered in 1. Richmond College was only 3. Law Department. The initial years were very successful for the new Law Department but during the difficult financial times that followed the Civil War, legal education was intermittent at Richmond College until 1. In that year, the family of the late T. C. Williams, Sr., endowed a Professorship of Law, thus assuring the continuous teaching of law at Richmond College. The Law School was granted membership in the Association of American Law Schools in 1. School of Professional and Continuing StudieseditThe School of Professional and Continuing Studies offers degree and certificate programs, enrichment opportunities, professional training, and college course work for part time and non traditional students of all ages. A variety of evening programs with credit and non credit courses make it possible for those with busy schedules to further their education or explore new interests. Undergraduate academicsedit. Boatwright Memorial Library bell tower. All students must complete general education requirements as part of the liberal arts curriculum. These requirements include a freshman seminar that all first year students must complete.