Do you have any medical horror stories? (read the last sentence of this post)

[Guest guest]

This is your chance to help others and tell the world about the " cure "

(Living Foods or whatever the case is) that helped you..

 

(for someone this " famous " to say what he said in the last line is an

eye opener for me)

 

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We all have horror stories, some worse than others.

 

 

Some people , even doctors think we are crazy. but little do they

know.

 

The medical field in America is in very bad shape and we are all

paying for

it one way or another , sign, Sunny

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

Michael Moore

 

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 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

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 Moore

michael

www.michaelmoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com/>