Upsetting the apple cart

Just got back from "Sicko." (Meanwhile, Evil Cat is doing his best Linda Blair impersonation. But I digress.)
Anyone who is concerned about health care in this country ought to see this movie. It will make you laugh a fair amount but it might also make you angry and depressed. I went with two friends from church. As was noted in the film, we lamented afterward how the U.S. system--the government, the entire health care industry, all of us--treats the less fortunate in our society. Of course we have great medical care and great docs; but the part having to do with money--and therefore access--is unfairly tilted.
The issue seems to boil down to one main question: Is health care a right or privilege? At least since the Nixon administration, when HMOs came along, health care has become a privilege here. Even if you are fortunate enough to have health insurance, that does not guarantee you can afford some catastrophic crisis. I know I couldn't. Michael Moore highlights several of these cases, including a California woman whose infant died because the hospital she took her to was out of her "network." Another couple had to move into cramped quarters with an adult child and his family because the husband had had multiple heart surgeries and the wife had cancer. Too expensive for them. Had to sell the house.
Critics are out in full force. See here and here and the aforementioned here.
This Associated Press story reports flaws in some of Moore's reporting.
Still, you have to know (whether you see "Sicko" or not, whether you're Red State or Blue State) that our system is quite dysfunctional. A major criticism of governments with universal healthcare is that patients have to wait for long periods of time in the emergency room. And that they sometimes have to wait weeks to see a specialist. Um, check, we get that in the U.S., too.
If you go see this movie, let me know what you think.