wants health care horror stories

[Guest guest]

Don't know if knows about the mercury-autism connection. If he

doesn't yet, I think it's time to make sure he does...

Filmmaker invites you to

e-mail your " health care horror story "

to him at michael@....

BELOW he promises, " I will read every

read every single one of them, " and says

he may film you for his new documentary

_Sicko_ about the health care industry.

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http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=193

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Send Me Your Health Care Horror

Stories... An Appeal from

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

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

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@...

http://www.michaelmoore.com

- end of letter -

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ACTIONS:

* Please e-mail to at

michael@... about

psychiatric human rights abuse!

* Please forward to others.

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