Fearless US film-maker Michael Moore's documentary attack on the American big business-run health care system, opens this weekend. The-Latest gives you some of the film's highlights.
- Man in a bunny suit being turned away from the hospital emergency room
- Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline chief executive officer Jean-Pierre Garnier at his front door in pyjamas and hair curlers, refusing to be interviewed
- That priceless moment when George W. Bush's aide whispers to the president that his blood cholesterol count is really, really bad
- America's Surgeon General is caught on film coughing and sneezing
- A brief segment on global warming, just to cover all the bases
- Uninsured toddler dumped on Vice-President Dick Cheney's lawn at 3 am
- Waiting room montage set to Robert Palmer's song, Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)
- Thirty seconds of unbiased, objective journalism
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