Michael Moore's funniest movie to date, not

It may be too late for a Must See (MS) recommendation for a 2007 documentary, but if you still don't know (but care) what are some of the salient issues in the "health care debate," then Michael Moore's "Sicko" is a film you must see.
    However, I don't get the blurbs on the Special Edition DVD. "You'll laugh till it hurts"? (Peter Travers) "Michael Moore's funniest movie to date"? (A.O. Scott)
    Not. Not.
    No, I agree with D. Maass, who wrote on November 6, 2007:

"Sicko" is about shame. The shame we should all feel as a country for allowing a health care system where profit's made by not providing care. The shame we should all feel for not standing up to it, for shrugging off the tremendous influence insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists swing and wield with our elected officials. The shame we should all feel for not caring for every human being within our borders. And perhaps, the most American shame of all: the shame of falling far behind the rest of the Western world.

Knowing the film's main conclusions from other sources, except for some of its squeamy details (like the man who sawed off two of his fingers and had to choose which finger he could afford to have reattached), I found the documentary a challenge to watch. Funny it's not, except possibly some of the shenanigans gotten up to by the liars who have been bought off by insurance or pharmaceutical companies. But these portrayals incite more to anger than to laughter.

I said some of the salient issues. One Moore overlooks is the question of America's being "overtreated," to borrow a phrase from the subtitle of Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.'s indispensable book, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (2008, University of North Carolina Press).
    If you have to choose between a Must See movie and a Must Read book, read Worried Sick. You'll learn infinitely more to your own personal advantage. And it's an enjoyable read, Hadler's right there with you, mind to mind.