How the Insurance Industry Tried to Discredit Michael Moore

[babsbunny]

How the Insurance Industry Tried to Discredit Michael Moore

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/11967

They tried 'to push Michael Moore off a cliff' says Wendell Potter, a former CIGNA spinmeister, and now a determined health insurance whistleblower. His new book, 'Deadly Spin,' exposes the health insurance industry's misinformation and disinformation campaigns aimed at killing health care reform.

It is the summer of 2006; Filmmaker Michael Moore is putting the finishing touches on his latest film called Sicko, a movie that purports to take on the health care system in the United States. Coming on the heels of the critical and box office successes of Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, the highest grossing documentary in history, Moore is hot; Hollywood hot. People's Choice Awards hot - in January of 2005, at the Thirty-First Annual People's Choice Awards, Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, receives the "Favorite Movie" award. Titans in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries have every reason to be concerned.

No one, other than Moore and his crew know what's in the film; although it appears that health care industry operatives are doing all they can to sniff out the details. Variety reported that when plans for the making of Sicko became public, several large drug companies "mounted plans to combat the doc, including circulating memos to employees warning them not to cooperate with Moore." The memos instructed their employees to be on the lookout for "a scruffy guy in a baseball cap" going around asking too many questions. PhRMA (The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America), which represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, had not yet issued any public statements regarding the film.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Michael Moore needs to do a movie about politicians that voters know are corrupt

and vote for them anyway.

[dkofos]

2. Like Rangel??