Michael Moore sent the following email out last week regarding Bill Moyers interview with a former health insurance executive, Wendell Potter, who reveals a documented plan to attack Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, Sicko. He details how insurance lobbyists pressured members of Congress to disregard the revelations in the film or risk not being reelected.
We’ve just been informed that Bill Moyers, on his show 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.
Health care is another one of those ‘essential services’, just like electricity, that should always be publicly owned and managed, taking profit and greed out of the equation.
