City Doctors Canvass at Cinemas Showing Film ‘Sicko’
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Dozens of doctors gathered last night near movie theaters screening Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” to call for increased funding for children’s health insurance.
Members of 1199 SEIU’s Committee of Interns and Residents distributed leaflets at the Cobble Hill Cinema in Brooklyn and the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 and Loews Kips Bay Theater in Manhattan. The documents touted increased federal funding for the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covered nearly 700,000 New York children last year.
“We want to be able to treat any patient that comes to our door,” a pediatrician at Bellevue Hospital Center, Monica Shah, said. The film, she said, “raises a lot of concerns about the state of health care.”
