Michael Moore in Sacramento to Promote Health Care Reform

[fed-up]

Source: KABC tv (Los Angeles)

By Nannette Miranda

SACRAMENTO, June 12, 2007 (KABC-TV) -

Filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary on America's healthcare system is getting a lot of political mileage in Sacramento.
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In "Sicko," Moore shows the dilemma many face because they're uninsured or under-insured.
The Assembly Speaker admits Moore's presence and movie could bring California closer to covering the state's 6.5 million uninsured.

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Filmmaker Michael Moore: "I think each of us are doing this together in the hopes of sparking, igniting a movement across California and this country, where the people of America are covered once and for all, and where profit no longer is the deciding factor."

Moore actually favors getting rid of insurance companies and supports Democratic Senator Sheila Kuehl's bill of universal health coverage under a single-payer plan. It's a plan supported by the California Nurses Association.


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Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=capitol_reports&id=5391404

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here are some other reports

http://www.nbc11.com/news/13492231/detail.html

http://www.kcra.com/news/13491726/detail.html (local Sacramento Station)

and another

http://newsbusters.org/node/13414
(note the dig against Hilary and the little info in Blitzer's comment about the actual movie)

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CNN's Blitzer Plugs Michael Moore with Support from 'People at Your Bedside'
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on June 13, 2007 - 01:15.

On Tuesday's The Situation Room, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer covered filmmaker Michael Moore's trip to the California state capitol and rally with nurses who support his push for universal health care and the abolition of private health insurance. At one point, Blitzer plugged the segment referring to Moore getting support from "people at your hospital bedside." Blitzer: "Why's he getting some unexpected support from people at your hospital bedside?"

Correspondent Brooke Anderson reported live from the state capitol -- once during the 5:00 hour and again during the 7:00 hour -- to cover Moore's activities, as she included a clip of the filmmaker complaining about profits in the health care industry. Moore: "This doesn't look good, folks. I mean, it doesn't look good to the rest of the world, and it won't look good to the anthropologists who dig us up hundreds of years from now. They'll wonder, what were these people thinking?" (Transcript follows)

Below is a transcript of both the segment from the 5:00 hour and the one from the 7:00, including some of the plugs that aired during the June 12 The Situation Room, with critical portions in bold:

WOLF BLITZER, in a plug at 4:28 p.m.: And the man behind the film Fahrenheit 9/11 turns his lens to the nation's health care system. Michael Moore is up to something today in California that may anger some people, just as his new film Sicko suggests the health care industry is driven by greed.

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[pepperbear]

1. I just saw the SICKO trailer for the first time!

looks good.

[cyclezealot]

2. arni is supposedly open minded.

So they tell us. Think he will double cross his insurance buziness fund raisers and talk to Moore.