Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from Michael Moore

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Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from

Michael Moore

 

 

Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from Michael Moore

 

 

" maillist " <maillist wrote:

 

2/3/06

Friends,

 

How would you like to be in my next movie? I know you've probably

heard I'm making a documentary about the health care industry (but the

HMOs don't know this, so don't tell them -- they think I'm making a

romantic comedy).

 

If you've followed my work over the years, you know that I keep a

pretty low profile while I'm making my movies. I don't give

interviews, I don't go on TV and I don't defrost my refrigerator. I do

keep my website updated on a daily basis (there's been something like

4,000,000 visitors just this week alone) and the rest of the time

I'm... well, I can't tell you what I'm doing, but you can pretty much

guess. It gets harder and harder sneaking into corporate headquarters,

but I've found that just dying my hair black and wearing a skort

really helps.

 

Back to my invitation to be in my movie. Have you ever found

yourself getting ready to file for bankruptcy because you can't pay

your kid's hospital bill, and then you say to yourself, " Boy, I sure

would like to be in Michael Moore's health care movie! " ?

 

Or, after being turned down for the third time by your HMO for an

operation they should be paying for, do you ever think to yourself,

" Now THIS travesty should be in that 'Sicko' movie! " ?

 

Or maybe you've just been told that your father is going to have

to just, well, die because he can't afford the drugs he needs to get

better -- and it's then that you say, " Damn, what did I do with

Michael Moore's home number?! "

 

OK, here's your chance. As you can imagine, we've got the goods on

these crooks. All we need now is to put a few of you in the movie and

let the world see what the greatest country ever in the history of the

universe does to its own people, simply because they have the

misfortune of getting sick. Because getting sick, unless you are rich,

is a crime -- a crime for which you must pay, sometimes with your own

life.

 

About four hundred years from now, historians will look back at us

like we were some sort of barbarians, but for now we're just the

laughing stock of the Western world.

 

So, if you'd like me to know what you've been through with your

insurance company, or what it's been like to have no insurance at all,

or how the hospitals and doctors wouldn't treat you (or if they did,

how they sent you into poverty trying to pay their crazy bills) ...if

you have been abused in any way by this sick, greedy, grubby system

and it has caused you or your loved ones great sorrow and pain, let me

know.

 

Send me a short, factual account of what has happened to you --

and what IS happening to you right now if you have been unable to get

the health care you need. Send it to michael. I will

read every single one of them (even if I can't respond to or help

everyone, I will be able to bring to light a few of your stories).

 

Thank you in advance for sharing them with me and trusting me to

try and do something about a very corrupt system that simply has to go.

Oh, and if you happen to work for an HMO or a pharmaceutical

company or a profit-making hospital and you have simply seen too much

abuse of your fellow human beings and can't take it any longer -- and

you would like the truth to be told -- please write me at

michael. I will protect your privacy and I will tell

the world what you are unable to tell. I am looking for a few heroes

with a conscience. I know you are out there.

 

Thank you, all of you, for your help and your continued support

through the years. I promise you that with " Sicko " we will do our best

to give you not only a great movie, but a chance to bring down this

evil empire, once and for all.

 

In the meantime, stay well. I hear fruits and vegetables help.

Yours,

Michael Moore

michael

www.michaelmoore.com

 

 

 

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