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Good point!
Mark
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Date: 04/22/06 14:28:18
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Fwd: Health Care Stories Needed for Michael Moore's Next Documentary
BEWARE of meathead moore.
He lied to and used a student who was confined to a wheelchair at
Columbine in his mockumentory "Bowling for Columbine".
He tries to act like a working class guy, but he's a user who laughs
all the way to the bank.
Im my book, he's as bad as ANY politician ever was.
Stunt
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:44:56 -0400
> Subject: Health Care Stories Needed for Michael Moore's Next Documentary
> "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
>
> You can submit stories to Michael Moore's general email,
> some conversations with the Producer of the movie, you can also
> 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
>
> Best wishes,
> Jonathan Young
> ===============================================
>
> "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
> (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
> 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
>
>
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