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"Health Care Stories Needed for Michael Moore's Next
Documentary"
Michael Moore is currently in the process of putting together a
documentary on the health care industry in America
(shhhh......don't let anyone in the health care industry know
:-) ). As you are probably aware, Michael Moore has taken on
many causes from gun control to the war in Iraq and many
others. Regardless of what you think about these other causes,
I think we all have some horror stories that relate to the
health care industry. Michael Moore and his crew are trying to
gather stories to be included in his movie.
A close friend of mine, Steve Siegel, has been in touch with
Michael Moore's Producer about some of his own stories, and I
thought JFA subscribers would probably have many more. Attached
at the bottom of this message is a copy of Michael Moore's
letter entitled "Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories . . .
an appeal from Michael Moore," which is also available at
www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=193
You can submit stories to Michael Moore's general email,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, since my friend has already had
some conversations with the Producer of the movie, you can also
simply forward your stories to Steve at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
he can send them straight on to the Producer.
As I mentioned, regardless of what you think about some of the
other causes Michael Moore has taken on, we can all agree that
there are things that HAVE TO be improved in our health care
system. I think this documentary will be a fabulous way to
bring some of the main issues to the forefront. I encourage you
to email stories to the address above, or directly to Steve, at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best wishes,
Jonathan Young
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"Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories . . .
an appeal from Michael Moore"
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 bastards. 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.michaelmoore.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=193
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