Bill Moyers Show Tonight: Insurance Lobby's Secret Plan to Attack "Sicko" and Michael Moore

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Bill Moyers Show Tonight Reveals Insurance Lobby's Secret Plan to Attack 'Sicko' and Michael Moore
Friday, July 10th, 2009

ALERT: We've just been informed that Bill Moyers, on his show later tonight, will expose for the first time the health insurance industry's secret campaign against Michael Moore and his film, "Sicko." It contains a stunning revelation and admission by a top health insurance executive -- the former head of publicity for CIGNA, one of the top health insurance companies in the country -- that the disinformation and attacks on Michael and the film were extensive and well-planned. Their job was to stop the movie from reaching a wide audience (and, more importantly, from having the widespread political impact the industry feared "Sicko" would have).

Wendell Potter, former Head of Corporate Communications at CIGNA (which provides health insurance to nearly 70 percent of the Fortune 100 companies) admits that, in fact, "Sicko" "hit the nail on the head" and told the real truth about how much better people in other countries have it when it comes to their health care.

The show airs tonight at 9:00 PM on PBS. (Check your local listings for exact times. Many areas show it on Saturday night, too.)

You can check out the segment about Michael and "Sicko" here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1FwOCNoZ8

Be sure to tune into Bill Moyers Journal tonight at 9:00 PM for the full program. Check here for local listings (and rebroadcasts):

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html

If you get this email too late, their website will soon post the full show soon:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers

Finally, the truth comes out. From one of their own. Amazing.

Yours truly, Webmaster
MichaelMoore.com
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[uponit7771]

1. The ins companies are not contributing much to America at this point

[ellenfl]

3. prone to understatement, are you? eom

[Submariner]

2. On top of screwing us out of our health care

A few years back. someone in CIGNA stole my identity and started running up thousands of dollars of fraudulent purchases. CIGNA sux in so many ways.

[ellenfl]

4. excellent show. please watch it. eom

[thunder rising]

5. Is Anti-Trust now gone? How is it corps get to conspire on anything?

[quidam56]

6. politician$$$ and profit machine$$$

As a former health care giver, I am shocked and saddened to see what has become of health care in America. $ 1. 4 million is being spent per day in DC by the health care lobbyists so your elected representative is getting taken care of and has quality health care we pay for and can't afford ourselves for our families, I know what is deemed, defended and supported in Tennessee and Virginia as quality health care and clearly profit care comes ahead of patient care. http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=62 MRSA ( methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureas ) is infesting our communities because filthy, uncaring hospitals and emergency rooms are breeding them and spreading them into our schools, homes, restaurants. How many more Americans' will be diseased or die while 74 % of Americans' are begging for health care reform ? More people died in America last year from MRSA complications than AIDS. When MRSA and a flu bug start mixing, it won't be pretty and we are being infected by the very health care system we depend on and trust to keep us safe and healthy.

[localroger]

7. At some point these guys went beyond mere douchebaggery

It's not enough for them to be villains, it's like they're goddamn COMIC BOOK villains. It's not enough for them to make themselves rich, they have to destroy EVERYTHING while running around in tights and cackling at their superiority.

[CATagious]

8. ever notice how...

.. the insurance companies and banks have some of the biggest, tallest buildings in the downtowns' of big cities?
They aren't going to give up on all that money easily.

[PretzelWarrior]

9. good point. they are some of the cornerstones of Corporate America

[Honeycombe8]

10. I don't think their plan worked. "Sicko" had a strong effect and reached a

fairly wide audience, didn't it? For those who go to Moore movies. The people on the right know what Moore's movies are going to say, so they NEVER go to see his movies. Only those inclined to agree with Moore go to see his movies.

I saw it. It was an eye opener and definitely shaped my opinions on the issue.