His new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, doesn’t drop until early October, but Hollywood Elsewhere nicely links and recaps a recent, illuminating Bill Moyers interview with Wendell Potter, the former vice president of corporate communications for CIGNA, and a current health care advocate with the Center for Media and Democracy, about how Michael Moore‘s 2007 documentary Sicko got the shaft, in the form of meticulously strategized undercutting by the health care industry. It’s from the same old slippery-slope, fear-the-government playbook that moneyed powers-that-be have used to forestall social progressivism for years if not decades, but I can tell you that this sort of shit sounds like white noise to a lot of the under-35 set.
