Go Lactivists!
This could be a great opportunity to get the word out.
~Virginia Bobro
Santa Barbara, CA
Direct link:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=193
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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 [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] 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
[log in to unmask]
www.michaelmoore.com
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