Health-care Industry Braces For Michael Moore's 'Sicko'
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Fans of Michael Moore's movies aren't the only ones eagerly awaiting the release of "Sicko." The U.S. health-care industry has the film's late-June premiere circled on its calendar as well.
For-profit providers of health care are the controversial and award-winning filmmaker's latest target.
"I don't think Michael Moore set out to make a balanced movie," said Karen Ignagni, president America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group. "He set out to make a movie about government-run systems and imposing them on the United States as the solution to the health-care crisis."
"We will have a lot to say about the movie when it comes out," she said.
. . . Nonpartisan or not, though, Moore is hoping the film will have a significant impact. "I'm hoping that the candidates will come forth with plans that provide true universal health coverage, free of charge, to every American, and plans that eliminate the private health-insurance industry," he said.
He also hopes, he said, that the film sparks a movement "to eliminate private, profit-making health-insurance companies.
"There's absolutely no room for them in this country," he said.
Michael Moore Conquers Capitol Hill with “Sicko”
“The need for universal health care has never been more urgent,” Conyers said, citing the 47 million Americans without health insurance and 50 million more who are underinsured. “According to the Institute of Medicine, 18,000 Americans die each year as a direct consequence of being uninsured. These facts are unacceptable in the richest country in the world.”
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