[lit-ideas] Fwd: Fw: Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from Michael Mo...

This is an EXCELLENT opportunity.  Speak up everyone!  I have at  least three 
I can contribute...
 
Julie Krueger
fan of Moore's
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To: snazzbo3@xxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:50 AM
Subject: Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from Michael Moore


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.michaelmoore.com



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