Re: Anyone have stories to tell ? P S

[Guest guest]

I have had my letters on Sunday Morning with Kuralt in the past and

other TV shows so that is why I said if he contacts me. You never know, not

on this subject but....other subjects.

Western NY

-- Have HEALTHCARE HORROR STORIES... read this

Subj: Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from

Date: 2/3/2006 4:52:28 AM Eastern Standard Time

From: maillist@...

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