Here comes Pharmaheit 9/11

[AGENDA21]

"Send me your health care horror stories…" reads the appeal. The stark request heads a letter from Michael Moore, the controversial filmmaker, published on his website earlier this month which asks for real-life examples of people's bad experiences of hospitals, insurance companies and drug makers.

Renowned for his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 in which he took on the Bush Administration over the war in Iraq, Moore's latest target is the health care industry.

Work on the film, Sicko, has been in progress since 2004 and it is finally expected to be premiered later this year but already speculation about its content has put the industry on the offensive.

If executives at health care companies worry they might come off badly in the film, Moore's letter leaves little doubt: "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!'?"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fmoney%2F2006%2F03%2F26%2Fccmoore26.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=%2Fmoney%2F2006%2F03%2F26%2Fixcity.html

[shenmue]

1. Can't wait

Should be a good one.

:thumbsup:

[dipsydoodle]

2. Appropriate name for the film

given the subject matter. Hope he names and shames the companies most at fault.

[depakid]

3. Even the Telegraph has a hard time sticking up for PhARMA

I think Moore has a problem with this film, though.

There's simply too much material- and too many abuses by too many corrupt individuals and entities to focus on.

[corkerjoe]

4. A good start might be

Ok, here is your new and improved drug plan, that a lobbyist Friend of mine wrote. Just remember that the price is fixed. If anybody trays to buy at a lower cost,you may go to prison, that is against the law