As of the writing of this blog post, Michael Moore's "crockumentary" SiCKO has a 91 percent positive rating over at RottenTomatoes.com. I'm not going to fatten Moore's wallet, because there's been more than enough actual reporting (as opposed to movie reviews) that exposes the film as fatally flawed. All of this means that it will probably win Moore another Oscar.

When that happens, remember that there's not a single Academy Award member -- and not a soul in the live audience -- who would go anywhere other than America for their health care needs.

As The New York Post's Kyle Smith noted:

The silliness of Moore’s oeuvre is so self-evident that being able to spot it is not liberal or conservative; it’s a basic intelligence test, like the ability to match square peg with square hole.

You shouldn't be surprised that many movie critics failed the basic intelligence test. One reviewer who shall remain unnamed and unlinked to actually had this to say about Moore's propaganda trip to Cuba:

Moore's coup de sass is in taking medically needy people who helped at the 9/11 crater to Cuba, ostensibly to get the quality care given terror suspects at our Guantanamo base. There was no real chance that his tiny flotilla would sail into Gitmo, but Moore docked at a Cuban port and the Yanks had a feast of free (or dirt-cheap) medical care.

Was this sweetened up? Perhaps.

Perhaps? Perhaps!?!

It's been a few years since I've posted this, but considering the lengths of the sentences, it's still accurate. Here's the list of people whom Castro doesn't particularly like -- and the prison sentences it earned them.

The unnamed reviewer follows up with a nod toward reality.

But though Castro is a tyrant, Cuba's health system is not just PR or a 99-cent bin of Third World generics. When an American who risked her health at the WTC ruin weeps because pills that were busting her budget back home are almost free in Cuba, we can all share her relief from pain.

Those on the left worry that the American health care system consists of the "haves" and the "have-nots." But, Moore foolishly suckers a lot of those on the left -- and the unnamed reviewer -- into believing that Cuba doesn't have a similar, two-tiered health care system.

Czech supermodel Helena Houdova and psychologist Mariana Kroftova were detained in Cuba on Monday when Houdova was taking photographs of a slum in the capital of Havana, Reuters news agency reported today.

The two women spent 11 hours in police custody.

Houdova, Czech Miss 1999 has lived for a second year mainly in New York and Los Angeles doing modelling. At the same time she tries to raise money to help children with social and health handicaps in nine countries the world over.

Some of Houdova's pictures were of the inside of a hospital that "the other half" gets to use -- trust me when I say that I'd rather eat off any of the floors in my condo rather than consume food, or anything else in that hospital.

We need to do a better job of providing health care to those who need it in this country. However, Moore's movie isn't a serious contribution to the debate. Moore takes the worst of the U.S. healthcare system and the best of the likes of Canada, France and Cuba, while failing to note the drawback like waiting lists and the proliferation of for-profit clinics in those countries (except Cuba).

The fact that Moore's movie is earning so much praise says a lot about the reviewers' politics -- and their intellectual honesty.