1. What kind of sicko would write something like that?

2. Healthcare looks likely to be a big issue in next year's US presidential election, while Michael Moore's latest polemical film Sicko has driven the subject further up the agenda.

3. Moore has been increasingly vocal of Democratic policy over the past year, something of a sea-change for the film-maker behind conservative-bating polemics such as Fahrenheit 911 and Sicko.