ROFL
Posted on 02/05/2006 6:15:43 PM PST by sausageseller
Subject: Send Me Your Health Care Horror Stories... An Appeal from Michael Moore Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 Reply-To: maillist@michaelmoore.com
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@michaelmoore.com. 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@michaelmoore.com. 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@michaelmoore.com www.michaelmoore.com
I had the following health care experience:
I was standing on the street in front of a Christian church. Government men arrested me and took me to a hospital, where they tested me and found that my organs matched a wealthy socialist Frenchman that would pay $140,000 for them. They told me that being Christian was a death penalty offense, shot me in the head, charged my wife ten dollars for the bullet, and didn't give me a dime of the profits. I thought you said socialized medicine was the way to go. I guess I didn't understand how you meant "go".
Yours truly, Bin Dun, Beijing China
Sounds like a good opportunity to send MM some "factual" health scare HMO stories!
If this fat bastard wants to make a movie about healthcare, let`s see him go after these frivilous lawsuits and leech lawyers that have been destroying health care since time immemorial, something Bush wanted to put and end to but liberals like Moore and Hellary opposed.
$200,000 a year it costs an oncologist to get insurance against these predators! $200 freggin thousand bucks a year! It has nothing to do with the health insurance companies or the doctors, it is these lawsuits that are completely out of control! I had one doctor I talked to a few months ago being sued by a woman who had cancer who didn`t visit a doctor for 15 years! She finally comes in for a check up after complaining of severe abdominal pain which turned out to be cancer in her liver, and just about everywhere else. Who does she blame? The doctor for "not finding it fast enough"..How the hell is he going to find it "fast enough" when she hasn`t visited him in 15 years? Are doctors now suppose to be psychic? "I had a vision that you may have cancer..Please come in for a check up".. And what happens? The lawyer gets dribbling idiots for the jury and the woman wins and healthcare goes up even more.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/medicalliability/
ROFL
I suspect this nauseating slob will very soon encounter his own health care horror story as he awakens from anesthesia to learn that the massive coronary his pig-butt experienced resulted in a quadruple by-pass and he needs to actually blame himself for once instead of mean and nasty Republicans.
Dear Michael,
While crossing the street I was hit by some wealthy jerk who ran a light. I was taken to the hospital where there were no sheets for the bed, I was sown up with thread with no pain killers. My family had to bring me food, sheets to sleep on and buy antibiotics and painkillers at the pharmacy for me.
The second day I was there they had to quit buying me the painkillers as it was just too costly. They also had to buy the IV fluids and even the needles.
On the third day the hospital sent me home to die.
But hey I didn't have to pay the doctor who saw me all of five minutes because of Socialized Medicine.
Isn't that great?
I did however have to pay for everything else. Because we have socialized medicine insurance is not affordable here.
I hear that in the US they would have taken care of me and I would not have been left with scars and bones that did not heal straight.
I have to wonder Michael, why would you want to change that?
Sincerity
< name withheld >
(Yes it is a true story)
I just read your homepage. What an interesting guy you are! I lived on Long Island for two years ('91-'92) and absolutely ADORED going into the City. If I was still in NY, I'd have loved stopping in and meeting you for lunch. I bet you could write a book.
FReep on, Newbie! ;-)
Nah. Didn't think so.
Probably makes him a dead ringer for Monica.
He may not have to do any lying making this movie. Anyone who thinks the present system is good either has a job that pays all their health care without regard to cost or has been lying to themselves. I dislike this idiot as much as anyone, but, our present system is way beyond broke and no 'fix' will cure it. Face it folks, socialized medicine has been here for several decades and keeps getting bigger everyday. What we need to do while we still have a chance is pointing it in the right direction.
LOL
What a freeping opportunity! I cant reprint what I sent him because I will get banned from FR, but trust me, it made me laugh! Lets overload his email server with freeper mail.
Hey I use to live out on Long Island, out in Bethpage..My parents live out in Riverhead, which is waayyyy out there! Yeah the city is great but it depends where you go or what you do.. WIth driving a taxi there are a lot of great people you meet but there are also a lot of lunatics as well, some REAL lunatics out there that should be nowhere near the public, but somehow they are.
I had one guy a few months ago who before he even got in my cab I knew immediately he was nuts, you just get this ability to read people after a while, but I picked him up anyway. I usually pick up everybody, I don`t care.. and sure enough when I got to a stop light he said "You have 3 minutes to get me to where I wanna go Mister! NOW!" so I was like, Okaaaay, this was a mistake. He doesn`t tell me it`s an emergency, only that I must get him there NOW like I have a Star Trek transporter or something.
Then I hit another stoplight and he starts totally freaking out, banging on the doors, hitting his head on the ceiling, screaming loud as hell and hitting my partion, so I told him to STOP like someone tells a kid to stop, like I tell all my lunatic passengers. I knew he was nuts probably schitzo, so what am I going to do, treat him like a punk?
Then he starts slapping my head telling me to go faster, so I closed and locked my partition, and when I got to where he wanted to go (which was about 4 minutes from where I picked him up), he gets out without paying me and walks into a video store. So I followed him to see if I could get him to pay me, and do you know what he was doing? He was returning a video.. This was the huge emergency for him. The guy was completely out of his mind so I left leaving well enough alone.
Oh yeah, then you get the type A personalities, the ones who are aggresive as all hell who start with the insults a soon as they get in.."What kind of loser drives a taxi? What, did you do, drop out of college? How many times do you bathe a week?" I get those ALL the time, the ones who like to unload on taxi drivers maybe because they got small d*cks or the boss yelled at them.
I had one guy who got in with his family last week, he sat in the front next to me while his two daughters and wife sat in the back, and the whole way up the West side highway he was constantly picking his teeth with a toothpick while making loud as hell disgusting sucking sounds, trying to sound as obnoxious as possible..THSSSSSTTHHHTHT like I want to hear this guy sucking sh*t out through his teeth! Then he starts spitting out stuff..ptew! ptew! ptew! He was trying to provoke me into saying or doing something so I totally ignored him for revenge, and sure enough when he got out he was all ticked off because I didn`t do anything. His wife was probably giving him crap so he thought he would give me crap as well, oh yeah and he didn`t tip me anything.
Like I said, there are some real nuts out there..It`s an alright job but there are more bad times than good, the hours are tough and the traffic can sometimes be beyind a nightmare. I`ve had days were I went home with practically nothing from being stuck in a traffic jam the entire day.
Here is a good weblog of this girl who drives in the city, she drives out of this garage I use to work out. Look at the pics of all the people driving who give her the finger! lol! I should do one of these weblogs as well!
http://newyorkhack.blogspot.com/
Oh yes, and just to get off the subject, look at this website my brother sent me! Movies by Bunnies LOL!
http://www.angryalien.com/
Shameless freeping bump. Yet any reason to freep MM is a good reason to bump a thread.
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