From - Send Me Your Health Care Horror Story

[Guest guest]

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@..._ (mailto: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@..._

(mailto: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@..._ (mailto:michael@...)

_www.michaelmoore.com_ (http://www.michaelmoore.com/)