Former CIGNA Executive Hails 'SiCKO' on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!

[TonikHealthInsurance]

nice information...! thanks for upload this video...!

[NocheezRecords]

Amy Goodman is a commie? LOL. Doubt it. It would seem she is more of a social libertarian or anarchist. Hard to say since I never asked here exactly what she is.

How is Amy Goodman a hypocrite? By giving people real access to news and information instead of being a joke like FOX?

[Peglash]

Grow up! Name calling is out of fashion no matter how old you are.

Second, a communist is a representative of communism so one implies the other.

Third, an easy way of knowing if they are commies, and they are not, is to read the definition of communism : Wiki it! Both of them want universal health care like every other highly industrialized country but they want CLEAN, LEGAL and BALANCED economic competition. Thats a right-center policy.

[NocheezRecords]

I would say that is also a far left anarchist policy. It's a good thing.

[Peglash]

you don't seem to even know what communism is

[lordhighexecutioner]

Reading some of this stuff makes me better understand why revolutionary terror happens. Some people deserve to be guillotined.

[OrmEmber]

Well, there it is, out in the open. A planned conspiracy to spread misinformation to scare Americans back into the arms of private insurance, just like they did when Clinton tried to get universal healthcare. And you know the worst part? Americans don't care. They are so scared of the words "government" and "healthcare" in the same sentence, that even though they Know the insurance cos. will deny them treatment, they will fight to keep them; kind of like fighting to protect your own killer.

[Garret00074]

They think the American public is so stupid right now that all they have to do is say the word socialism and death panels and the American public will think we've headed down paths of darkest Russian communism. And they control the media, and they've dumbed down the American public so much that it works.

All they still have to do is say socialism and the public, trained like Pavlov's dogs, will bite the hand that wants to feed it.

It is lies and lies and lies, and only the corporate state ben

[NocheezRecords]

True again and definitely highly annoying. Really shows the failure of the school system.

[Peglash]

well said

[billoakesattablthree]

The sad thing is the media is not paying enough attention to this issue with regards to the private interests involved. The middle class and the poor are going to suffer horribly because of the lack of attention by the media on this subject.

[70road]

Who do you think owns the media?

[Garret00074]

The media is controlled by corporations. Rupert Murdock is the biggest media holder in America...along with GE and DIsney and Viacom.

The media is not left wing, it's not out for the truth, it serves the interests of the oligarchy.

Open your eyes...you are naked and alone and if you don't find out the truth yourself no one is going to bring it to you.

[themeaningoflife38]

also check out "Operation Mockinbird" the media has been controlled by the CIA since the 1940s

[NocheezRecords]

Very true Garret.

[putittogether]

Health care reform, this is what needs to happen.

1. Lawsuit reform

2. End the vast majority of regulation. a. no doctors licenses to practice medicine. b. no FDA c. etc....

3. Set up a temporary no interest loan programs for emegency health care needs.

4. Restore DIRECT financial relationships doctors and consumers

5. Discourage insurance

6. Allow the free market to trully be free.

[porsche944]

Would you mind elaborating on these points just a tiny bit for me?

[putittogether]

Yes.

[yanikv]

huh?

[pmsearchdotnet]

wow. thank god you're not elected.. whew.

[janebusby]

If I was one of these pathetic, easily corrupted politicians who lacked all integrity,.. I would atleast demand that Cigna and all the other companies pay me tens of millions of dollars for my vote against Obamas plan!

This multibillion dollar industry needs this legislation to drop dead like we need air.

[bushofthecrazies33]

We need single payer PERIOD!

[MeandProgressive]

People pay up to their nose for Insurance Policies that refuse to pay -- whats the point of buying it? There is nothing funny about death and an insurance company such as Progressive that REFUSES to honor their policy. Progressive is nothing more than a Ponzi Scheme in which the Corporate Executives get rich and leave injured policy holders bogus insurance policies which are not worth the paper they are written on. See Progressive Insurance Has Treated Me as Roadkill Don't buy Progressive!

[johnnorvaisas]

America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

It finally reveals the price of the reckless ambitions of our current government... including tax increases that would take us to even higher levels than most of Europe!

[RedToryProductions]

How did Saskatchewan accomplish single-payer non-profit public medical insurance in 1940s ?

Tommy Douglas and Mouseland.

Check it out.

[Smartassawhip]

Anyone who wants to read the actual health care bill is free to do so via a link I have posted in the comment section of my profile. I encourage all of you to take the time to find out for yourself what this is all about instead of taking another persons word for it. There are a lot of lies and fear tactics being used to make you believe this and that... don't be a dummy and fall for it when you can easily look for yourself and see right through them.

[tomitstube]

amy had obama's doctor of 20 years on today. he was quite adamant and explained quite clearly that a 'universal healthcare', program with input from drug companies and insurance companies will result in a bureaucratic nightmare!

which is what we all ready have. billions of dollars spent to keep americans from getting care.

[c64c64c64]

yay we kicked slovenias ass

[Nicsho]

If the guy who ran it says its all true, why did Fox run that piece about it being all wrong?

[spock8585]

The insurance company have known for years this was coming and refused to change.

They already deny medical procedures saying they will not cover them because they are not needed.

Republicans are trying to protect their rich insurance friends.

[3slimdog]

Republitards are the shit of the earth.

[putittogether]

Let me get this straight because I want to understand the mind of an ignorant lazy brainwashed fool....

[putittogether]

You want to give the power of life and death of every single American by force no less to the State? Would that be the same State you trust so much? The same State that has a Congressional appproval rating of 13% the lowest in recorded history? Would that be the same sate that invented the Social

Security ponze sceem. The same State that brought you the military industrial complex? The same State that consumes 40% of all the human labor in the country?

[Chiffon56]

putittogether: So much better to keep the power of life and death in the hands of HMOs, who are out to save money by denying care, 'eh? Yep... that makes sense. No wonder you guys love Palin. You're fucking BRAIN-DEAD.

[putittogether]

1. Why insurance

4. Why not changing insurance laws.

Can you read or are you just retarded?

[Yankhadenough]

putittogether Single Payer ELIMINATES the middlemen, ends the insurance industrial complex forever, takes away health insurance from Wall Street profiteers who make more money by NOT fulfilling our medical claims, and gives WE THE PEOPLE total health care, regardless of pre-existing conditions , income, job status or whatever, and gives us freedom of choice of private doctors, hospitals , and specialists.

[tomitstube]

well 'putitogether', when you criticize the "state" in 2009, you're criticizing a government run by corporations. so we agree on the same thing, get these money sucking greedy corporate gluttons out of our government, give us a fair and affordable run health care that will eliminate your other state/corporate run system and americans win.

your days are numbered ass wipe. and if you creeps get into the government program, we'll make another sweep until you're all in the unemployment line.

[putittogether]

tomitstube, Jane you ignorant slut. You want that same group (the State) that has screwed you all your life to now run a single payer health care system, where your very life depends on it? How is the fool here?

[tomitstube]

i don't see a downside.

[RevSpike]

Hey, I'm 44 and do not have health care. I was born here and have been working fulltime since I was 16, and I know I do not deserve it. We need the system to stay the same where i will also die without health care. I'm not as smart as those others who have better jobs, im not rich to have gone to school to get a better job, i don't need to blame anyone but myself. Yeah there's millions of us at last count, thousands die daily. survival of the fittest (just like it says in the satanic bible.)

[DillonX]

We must defeat those who're now in the pocket of the Insurance Companies - AND THAT INCLUDES DEM SEN LANDAIU OF LA AND DEM SEN NELSON OF NEB.

[DillonX]

Barack should get the House to vote for "the public option".

But millions are being thrown around by the Health Ins Companies now & much is going to Senators - SO THE SENATE WILL BE A BATTLE!

[Yankhadenough]

ObamasBabyMama America, that can send man to the moon, needs  Universal Healthcare, like every civilized Western Industrialized Nation in the world.

[putittogether]

Yankhadenough - You are so right. Everybody knows that government run programs are better than free people making decisions for themselves. We need to force people to pay into a national system like Canada. Freedom sucks and is stupid. Socialize medicine now. Put the power where it belongs in the politicians hands.

Fascism Now Fascism FOREVER

OBAMA FOREVER

[Yankhadenough]

putittogether your only weapon is sarcasm, because you are a disinfo agent from a wayback machine with really old propaganda (commie behind every bush ). Single Payer merely ELIMINATES the middlemen (insurance corruptions) who OBSTRUCT our freedom of choices of our private doctors and our private Hospitals and our private specialists NOW.

[Yankhadenough]

putittogether If you don't believe me, listen to Wendell Potter here, he's a retired CIGNA exec turned whistleblower.

[Weleski]

Free people making decisions? Free Americans would *LOVE* to make the decision to buy affordable health insurance, but they cannot do it. If they have a pre-existing condition, they are blacklisted. If they can't pay large deductibles and co-pays, they don't get service. And if they are a member of the "working poor," they probably can't even afford to be seen by a doctor.

It's amazing how easily the ill-informed and ignorant faction of the right-wing can be used by the healthcare industry.

[Yankhadenough]

Weleski  Thank you

[putittogether]

Weleski You ignorance is unforgivable. For your mistake will cost me and other everything our live and your in fact. Its simple unforgivable. You fail to ask the most basic questions first.

1. Why insurance

2. Why not the doctor directly

3. Why always "doctor"

4. Why not changing insurance laws.

5. Why not deregulate the medical field

6. Why doctors licenses?

7. Why not reform medical malpractice laws

8. Why all the bureaucracy, don't doctors and patience want to be left alone?

[Yankhadenough]

putittogether Why not Single Payer for all?

[justthefactsmissus]

The Canadians deal with huge numbers of illegal immigrants already.

[Yankhadenough]

ObamasBabyMama That's a fallacy. Canada sends the most urgent cases to USA if the urgency outweighs the triage time in Canada, and Canada PAYS for whatever medical is provided by US. My friend was a TOURIST in Canada , had abdominal pains , was triaged in Canada ER as Ovarian Cancer in early stages, had surgery and recovery time, and went back to Oregon cured and no medical bills!

[Weleski]

In the words of the American right-wing, "What?! Why should *I* have to pay for the medical care of some foreigner?! Don't you realize that those are *MY* tax dollars??? Plus, all government-run programs are disastrous. Forget that! I prefer a system where 40+ million Americans don't have health insurance and where corporate middlemen siphon billions out of the system each year!"

I am amazed at the stupidity of some people.

[Yankhadenough]

My employer has my son registered in their benefits database as a permanent disabled adult dependent, no more paperwork , no more hassles. Even though that is the case, Blue Cross Blue Shield STILL had me jump through more hoops to "renew" my son's disabled adult dependent status !

[grahamkeithtodd]

odd that the sods who run the current health care system in the USA are spending MILLIONS of dollars to try to STOP the people of the USA having a good affordable health care system...

what makes it even odder is that the sods seems to have quite a few senators in their back pocket.. it the UK that is known as BRIBERY and CORRUPTION!

for GOD'S Sake people WAKE UP AND WISE UP!

[wpiman]

Sicko was a sad movie; but had a lot of anecdotal evidence.

I had an emotional response; but my rational brain told me a different story. The US has the best health care system in the world; we have access problems for some disadvantaged; but that is a supply problem.

We haven't opened up a new medical school in years. Open up 100 medical schools; and the costs will plummet into affordibility. Don't look at how to pay; look at how to make it cheaper. Michael, do a movie on the AMA.

[grahamkeithtodd]

wpiman your sentence should have read"the US has the best health care system in the world(if you can afford it)"

sadly over 40% of the population of the USA cant afford it!

[Yankhadenough]

wpiman The problem IS twofold. We need to cut out the middlemen altogether (health insurance corruptions) and cut costs ( a movie sequel to SICKO, maybe call it "The Hypocritic Oath" )

[llothar68]

I would even say go for state financed and controlled medical research and development.

You could see that even under a stupid russian socialism style science worked very well really competetitive to the USA.

Imaginge what you could with scandiavian style socialism.

[toribaltimore]

This kind of rhetoric alienates you and people. You should try a different tack.

[saxmanchiro]

Michael, here is a quote that we need to adhere to;

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."- George Orwell

But then again, you already know this. Please re-release to US theaters ASAP.

[Yankhadenough]

We need encores of SICKO , in theatres near us!

[SursumTX]

Just got invited to yet another fundraiser "benefit" for someine in my community. Those are our "health benefits" now -- fundraisers with musicians playing and people donating. And they don't raise enough to really make a big difference. Unbelievable that this is America.

[tolbertme]

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[BarryinStlouis]

SICKO must hit the mainstream. Please put it on ALL local networks Mr. Moore. Let's turn up the volume.

[dudeulartv]

I went to the hospital once last year for some tests. They did every test in the book, and as it turns out it was stress or something. It cost about 10 G's, and my insurance covers nothing outside my Dr.'s office, even if it's in the same building, it's still not covered! Anyway, they are relentless with phone calls harassing me to get paid and putting me into collections! They call 5 + x a day, they are relentless. Talk about stress!

[grahamkeithtodd]

dudeulartv old son.welcome to the wonderful world of US medicine!

GOD HELP YOU MATE!

[dudeulartv]

oh ya, i know all about it! it's ridiculous!

[nohealthcare62]

West Tn was sprayed 7 years with MALATHION Paid 1/2 Fed Gov AG & Farmers BoWeevil Erad 46 yrs young and VERY SICK Dept of Human Ser.says I do NOT Qualify Not illegal or w/ child

[Yankhadenough]

DEMAND Amendment 18 "Single Payer by States" in HR3200!!!

CALL & WRITE CONGRESS TODAY!!!

[MyImago]

See Sicko

"According to the Economist the total US spend on health care is 15.4% of GDP including both state and private. With that it gets 2.6 doctors per 1,000 people, 3.3 hospital beds and its people live to an average age of 78.2. As a whole Europe spends 9.6% of GDP on health care, has 3.9 doctors per 1,000 people, 6.6 hospital beds and live until they are 81.15 years old. The US has the most expensive health care system that seems not to be effective, which is very bizarre indeed.

[nohealthcare62]

SHOW SICKO on FREE TV ! People are Stopping Satelite and Cable Because THEY CANT AFFORD IT ! HR 676 TODAY Please TWITTER TODAY Health Care Now !

[skyeyenet]

Right now, the insurance corporations are pooling in the best & most expensive media spin-doctors to campaign against health care reform.Observe how network news will shift gradually using "cue-words" or images in their reports towards a thought that will favor these oppressive industry.

[wervasdeferens]

Don't forget about former GOP senate leader Bill Frist.

Frist has a fortune in the millions of dollars, most of it the result of his ownership of stock in Hospital Corporation of America, the for-profit hospital chain founded by his brother and father. HCA paid over $1.7-billion in criminal penalties for Medicare fraud. Frist's 2005 financial disclosure form lists blind trusts valued between $15 million and $45 million

Reform health care? Yeah,right.

[wervasdeferens]

Ins. Co. & CEO With 2008 Total CEO Compensation

■Aetna, Ronald A. Williams: $24,300,112

■Cigna, H. Edward Hanway: $12,236,740

■Coventry, Dale Wolf: $9,047,469

■Health Net, Jay Gellert: $4,425,355

■Humana, Michael McCallister: $4,764,309

■U. Health Group, Stephen J. Hemsley: $3,241,042

■Wellpoint, Angela Braly: $9,844,212

Reform health care? Yeah,right.

[pongman]

Lol, that's just for 2008. The former CEO of United Healthcare retired with over 4 billion dollars. I wonder how many people he killed to get that?!

[justsumdude899]

Thanks, Mr. Moore.

[pongman]

Michael Moore should re-release Sicko again, right now in all the theaters across the country. It would be nice to watch it on the silver screen.

[saxmanchiro]

pongman

Great idea. It is available for rental and the folks need to go and watch it again and again. It's a crying shame that this country has so many uninsured.

[pongman]

I donated $50.00 towards President Obama's & Mitch Stewart's Healthcare campaign. It's probably a drop in the bucket but at least I can sleep a little bit. If only half of America would do it then maybe we can beat them at their game.

[timparcival]

I bought the DVD when it was released. I'm going to have a health reform get together at my house and show it.

Maybe that'll help counteract the $1.82 billion the "health industry" has put into defeating any kind of reform.

[Francebrasil]

I am wondering if a crappy outlet like Fox News would run such interview??

[marniespeaks]

All the major news outlets are connected, invested or owned by corporations connected to the health care Industry

[skyeyenet]

I agree, but perhaps on TV this time.

[Garret00074]

Not really...It's complicated. Follow the money...

Mostly it's right wing groups that want Obama and the Democrats to fail. Then, there has always been the right wing nightmare that if you get universal healthcare it will be an entitlement, and entitlements take away tax dollars for corporations and business.

One of the reasons the Bush administration ran up the defit was to starve the federal government of money so it can't do things like health care.

[saxmanchiro]

Francebrasil

Answer to your question; Nope, they sure wouldn't.

[FriedDaisy]

Corporations are not our friends. They are soulless, immortal behemoths whose prime directive is to parasitically suck up as much wealth, power and influence as possible before their host, us, realize that their "business" activities are literally killing us.

No other industry makes this argument as obvious as the private, for-profit health care insurance industry does.

[LouieArrighi]

Americans need to stand up what is right, even if it's against the grain. Michael Moore is NO pushover. we need more patriots like him.

[1111mjon]

Why doe`s the sound drop out at 2;30???

[pjce3]

Its good to see more videos of how truthful moore was on his DOCUMENTARY... Americans need to fucking wake up and notice that a healthcare system that only worries wether or not u can pay their fees is not a truth and careful system, just a money maker for the big bosses. I live in United States of America and I'm proud to be a Resident of this great country and can't wait to become a citizen. I love this country but the healthcare here is honestly the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen.

[Gesundheitsschadlich]

Your country is not great anymore. Michael Moore is a person who wants to re-glorify this once prosperous nation.

[thenewvoice8]

their country was never great - certainly not by any definition of great that I am familiar with.

I mean they started off with slaughtering the native people and animals - and then they cranked it up a notch and it went downhill from there

[pjce3]

Pufff, i didn't live in that time, we are talking about the present,stick to it. And you talk about slaughtering native people,have you forgotten that ALL colonizers did that shit?Come on. Also, don't say a country sucks just because of one thing. This is the 5th country I have been in my entire life(all in america) and you have no idea what a bad country is. Compared to them, USA has tons of things which makes it great.

[thenewvoice8]

of course all colonizers did - I say it about them all.

I can't be bothered going into your other points except to say that of course america has things that make it great - my overall point is that most places do but most other places don't bang on about being the greatest country on earth - the yanks do - and it isn't - no country is

their lack of national health care, their frivilous law suits, backwards religious attitudes, global warming denial they have a long way to go to claim greatest

[saxmanchiro]

thenewvoice8

Good points and brutally honest. The USA has a long way to go before it can call itself 'civilized'. The climate change issue is a very sad situation. Turns out the level of religiosity is directly linked to the level of denial in AGW. I guess the sky daddy worshippers think only their god can screw up the earth's ecosystems.

[llothar68]

Yes it's a pitty. With climate change, the water problems in California/Nevada and the financial meltdown. People are still not willing to realize that there Way of Living was a totoal failure.

It's disgusting.

[llothar68]

One example of your greatness: One sunny sunday morning 10000 people died in the streets of panama city just because an insane president was pissed up by an ex CIA terrorist friend named Noriega. Compare this with the few people who died on 9/11.

I meet a well educated charity foundraising woman yesterday in a restaurant - she didn't know the difference between U3 and U6 unemployment statistics.

No no, USA was never great - it was always a terrorist state full of idiots.

[Garret00074]

yea, it does...But health care isn't one of them...

[garwig888]

a ,big stick but no carrot.

do a piece on ktterman city

[Jensagirl]

The USA's current healthcare system will tell you that they are the best in the world. But, it comes with a price, if you don't have the money, you can't get healthcare.

I am not saying "free healthcare" to all, but make it available to all that need it.

Someone has been getting robbed for to long now, yes, you, me and the general public.

[kevmo99]

How good is Amy Goodman? Two questions in 5 and a half minutes. Unlike other newspeople, Amy knows how to let the person tell their story without interjecting. She is just way too competent at her job for corporate news.

[PlanetoftheAtheists]

Amy is a God! Listen to this testimony, then turn on Fox News and listen to evangelist Huckabee rail against universal healthcare Jesus would be all for helping the sick, wouldnt he? Honest peolle can see through the corporate media's spin in favor of the industries they serve

[achampag]

michael thank you so much for scaring these ppl...for going after them...plz keep it up!

[Charcoal125]

I can't wait to see your new movie.