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looking for health horror stories

Below is a forwarded note from

that he is looking for health horror

stories, please forward:

~~~~~

Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories...An

Appeal from

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

'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

'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@...

www.michaelmoore.com

FAIR USE NOTICE

This email contains copyrighted material the use of which has not

always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. I am

making such material available in my efforts to advance understanding

of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy,

scientific, and social justice issues, etc.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted

material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In

accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material in this

email is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a

prior interest in receiving the included information

for research and educational purposes. For more information go to:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml

If you wish to use copyrighted material from this update for purposes

of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission

from the copyright owner.

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