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Mike's Letter

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@...

www.michaelmoore.com