Moore Lobbies Health Care Lobbyists
EmailABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: In his latest gambit to draw attention to Sicko, his forthcoming documentary about the nation’s health-care system, Michael Moore is holding a screening for registered health-care lobbyists.
Over the next five days, ads will run in The Washington Post, Roll Call, The Hill, and Politico listing all of the registered health-care lobbyists in Washington, D.C., and inviting them (so long as they bring the ad as their ticket) to a special screening.
Moore plans to set up a web cam at the lobbyist screening so that the public can see how many lobbyists — if any — actually show up.
Asked if Moore actually expects lobbyists to show up at the "exclusive" 4:00 pm ET screening being held for them on June 20 at the Union Station theaters in Washington, D.C., Sicko spokesperson Chris Lehane acknowledged that it was a long-shot while adding that Moore is still hoping that the film provides them with "their Paul on the road to Damascus moment when they are able to see the real-life consequences of a broken health-care system."
The scores of names in Moore’s ad were generated, according to Lehane, by the Center for Responsive Politics and refer to individuals who were registered as health-care lobbyists in 2006.
In addition to the screening that he is staging for health-care lobbyists, Moore is also planning to pressure the 2008 White House hopefuls.
When Moore joins the Democratic presidential candidates at next week’s gathering of liberal activists sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future, he plans to urge them to back universal health-care coverage, get rid of for-profit health insurance, and regulate the drug industry like a utility.
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Michael Moore is unfortunately more dangerous than pathetic at the moment.
A ‘Universal’ (Socialized) Health care system in the US will destroy health care. It is both immoral (on the principle that stealing is wrong, did we forget that?) and so economically backwards and unfeasible as to be a joke.
Health care is broken and needs to be fixed. How about finding out what the problem is in the first place, rather than turning medicine into a bureaucracy and destroying our last hopes of having a functional health care system?
Posted by: Aaron W | June 15, 2007, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
Aaron,
Every developed nation in the world has a national health care system. The U.S. stands alone in the stone age on this one. Inspite of what you may think of Moore, he has a very strong point – our for-profit health care system is all about maximizing profits at the expense of everything else. Its a national disgrace that Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than we do.
The problem, as you describe, is that MONEY, can get into government to begin with. Fix that, and you fix everything that is wrong with our government.
Posted by: bob crawford | June 17, 2007, 9:39 am 9:39 am
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Why is there a fear of health care turning into a bureaucracy? This system already exists, except that the bureaucracy of the Managed Care Organizations are working to maximize profits through business strategies, rather than create medical strategies which would improve health and in the long run decrease expenses.
Should the health of our people be left to someone in an office who is looking at the bottom line or at whether or not they have achieved the denial rate for service set by his company? – To me this is the real bureaucracy, and it is immoral for them to play with human lives.
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