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Insurance Insider Confesses Michael Moore Told Truth on Health Care in "Sicko"

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  1. glynch

    glynch Member

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    Lot's of folks can perhaps have their eyes opened on how they get played on health care and other issues by corporate America.

    A very very important interview of a health care executive on the inside of the plot to demonze Moore, "Sicko" and bamboozle successfully the Obama Admin.

    Good News is that with major whistleblowers like Wendell Potter and mass movements we can still perhaps make real progress in our country.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2lYd1LBTSM&feature=channel
     
    #1 glynch, Nov 23, 2010
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    Can you summarize?
     
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    I don't always agree with Moore, and think he definitely paints a one-sided picture. Having said that: 'Sicko' was possibly his best, most effective piece of work, and definitely seems to have more hits than misses. Particularly, the scene where the woman is dumped on the street in a hospital gown and left to fend for herself is stomach-churning and appalling.

    Another stirring, disturbing moment...

    <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PwGLdYBm1bY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PwGLdYBm1bY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

    Witness the blatant screwing of the American people at 1:57.
     
    #3 BetterThanI, Nov 23, 2010
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    I don't understand how people opposed can even answer something like this ,with nixon saying what he did as well, its just ridiculous and sad to see
     
    #4 showtang043, Nov 23, 2010
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    Heard about it this morning on 90.1 democracynow radio.
     
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  7. glynch

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    A hard case like you really needs to watch the ex insurance company company exec on film.

    However what Wendell Potter said:

    We (insurance company insiders) were afraid that "Sicko" might ignite a populist movement and if the public finds out the truth it could end our lucrative business.

    We set out to learn everything we could possibly use to discredit Moore. I know all that is available about him, his wife, his kids etc.

    I saw all his movies; all his TV shows; I read all three of his books. I went to the small town where he lives to check things out.

    We started fake "grass root" groups like Health America. We had an insurance exec on the payroll head Health America and it proclaimed itself to be independent.

    She successfully trashed Moore and the Movie on Sanjay Gupta's CNN show and in USA and other major media venues. Nobody knew she was an insurance co exec.

    The movie was virtually 100% correct in its facts such as its protrayal of the huge popularity of the Canadian system in Canada and Canadians living 3yrs longer on average probably due to their system.

    We developed standard lines to use such as "Michael Moore plays fast and loose with the truth. We ran daily polls to see if it was changing public opinion.

    We had a plan B to really go on the offensive with think tanks, op ed pieces etc to trash him and the movie if necessary. We spent millions and were ready to spend more.

    I had tears in my eyes when I saw the movie. It was true and moving. I was already becoming sick at what lies I had to tell in my job before I worked on the Michael Moore Project.
     
    #7 glynch, Nov 23, 2010
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    THIS IS THE FAMOUS 'GREAT AND FREE HEALTH CARE' THAT REGULAR CUBANS RECEIVE

    One of the greatest fallacies about the so called 'Cuban Revolution' has to do with healthcare.

    Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro's propaganda machine: "All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free." But the truth is very different. Castro has built excellent health facilities for the use of foreigners, who pay with hard currency for those services.

    Argentinean soccer star Maradona, for example, has traveled several times to Cuba to receive treatment to combat his drug addiction. But Cubans are not even allowed to visit those facilities. Cubans who require medical attention must go to other hospitals, that lack the most minimum requirements needed to take care of their patients.

    In addition, most of these facilities are filthy and patients have to bring their own towels, bed sheets, pillows, or they would have to lay down on dirty bare mattresses stained with blood and other body fluids.

    This is not Auschwitz, this is the psychiatric hospital in Castro's Cuba

    WARNING!!! NOT SAFE FOR WORK IMAGES OF REAL SICKO LEFTIST COMMIE "HOSPITALS"

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    March 2 - These photos were taken at Havana's psychiatric hospital, known as Mazorra, in early January of this year and taken out of the island by people who risked their lives to show the world what really is happening in Castro's Cuba.

    These are several of the more than 40 patients who died of hypothermia at the hospital, when temperatures near freezing hit the area where Mazorra is located.

    These patients died because of the negligence of those in charge of this hospital, and after they died, hospital officials threw them on a table, one on top of the other, like bags of garbage at the local dumpster.

    This is the fantastic healthcare that Cubans receive, according to Michael Moore and other useful idiots.

    Patients are treated worse than animals. It is the cruelty of that brutal regime that has been oppressing the Cuban people for more than 51 years, while the dictator murdering and oppressing Cubans is referred to as "president," and embraced by Latin American leaders who were democratically elected.

    Many show marks that indicate that patients were beaten before they died.


    The hospitals where they didn't take Michael Moore

    The photos at Marina Azcuy were taken by Adela Soto and Luis Alberto Pacheco Mendoza.

    The ones at Quinta Covadonga were taken by someone who wants to remain anonymous. http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm

    The Cuba Michael Moore Won’t Show You

    WARNING: MORE DISTURBING IMAGES OF LEFTIST REALITY:

    http://freethoughts.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-cuba-michael-moore-wont-show-you/
     
    #8 rtsy, Nov 23, 2010
  9. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    And Al Gore admitted he supported corn based ethanol subsidies mainly for the purpose of getting votes in the midwest.
     
    #9 bobrek, Nov 23, 2010
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