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  • @amyx28 yes this was my father and sadly he passed away in 2007 from a heart attack while he was getting dialysis done. And thank you guys for liking this video it means more than you will ever know. An if anybody knows where I can get in touch with Michael Moore please let me know

  • don't these people at insurance compagnies have a hearth, what's wrong with these people??? 

  • God bless MIchael Moore fro bringing to light all the atrocities that face all humans by corrupt corporations and government. May one day soon we all will get the freedom from corruption and greed we all so deserve as humans on this planet.

  • why do you ALWAYS have to threaten someone to get something done? This world sux.

  • ****PEOPLE, PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS IN THE YOUTUBE VIDEO “MICHAEL MOORE VISITS MADISON”!!! (THEY BEGIN ON COMMENT PAGE 2)

  • HMO criminals in collusion with unlawful government perverts, force people to pay and pay and pay their entire lives, but when it comes time for them to collect a share of communist medicine or communist social security they find out they aren't going to get any of it, the criminals have already transferred all those life-long payments into a corporation mafia that will supply the unlawful government perverts with GRAFT payments.

    Then the best way to avoid complaints, is to kill the victim.

  • @lildonahue... Was he (Chris Donahue) your father?... he has definitely inspired a lot of people with this video, with his common decency in opposing a disgusting system. I'm sorry if he isn't with us now, but so glad that you have those extra 8 years of good memories of him!

  • Is the awful truth a movie or different segments from a show? I wanna get it :)

  • I love how micheal moore smother these fuckers with the truth. And they dont look so though when confronted.

  • @uuukkjj man, I wish I could punch the face of that Humana jackass guy, for saying all those lies, pretending to be nice and thoughtful, forcing them out of the building. The most bullshit I ever have seen and heard. But again, Michael makes him look just like the stupid son of a bitch he is, by just showing the thruth and asking questions. He did it all non-violently, and it was awesome.

  • i would like to thank Michael moore personally for letting my dad live another 8 years with out him i wouldn't have the memories i do. and everybody who likes this video.

  • i would like to thank Michael moore personally for letting my dad live another 8 years with out him i wouldn't have the memories i do. and everybody who likes this video

  • Private insurance in Germany is cheaper than a lot of the government insurance plans and gives you greater coverage. To prevent people flocking to private health insurance, the government imposes restrictions, so that only the wealthy and business owners can get private insurance, while everyone else is forced into queues.

    So, how can for profit health insurance companies in Germany deliver cheaper and better care than the no profit government insurance? And yes, we do ration care here.

  • moore for president. what a hero. a man of action. as apposed to the status quo on the hill. talking heads,profiteers.

  • moore for president.

  • Michael Moore, I wish there were more of you in this world who cared.

  • does anyone know what a hmo is? ... PURE EVIL lol

  • :'(

  • Humana should refund 7 years worth of payments.

  • Michael Moore. What a Guy.

  • "Every day that goes by, while you investigate the facts, is a day closer to his funeral." LOVE that he left the pub relations weasel speechless!

  • This is why I love Mike: he pisses people off while NOT offending them.

  • The basic definition of a hero is someone who saves another person's life. He obviously saved this guy's life by bullying Humana into covering his pancreas transplant and pancreas transplants for the rest of the diabetics they cover. So yeah, he is a hero. You can not like him all you want, but he's a hero. And he consistently stands up for the little guy that corrupt businesses and politicians try to walk all over. You go Michael Moore...keep agitating those a-holes!

  • 13 retards found the "dislike button"

  • Moore is as far left as you can get. Fox news is on the right. Why can't we just have a nice moderate news source

  • Thumbs up if masturbation is your middle name....

  • @moonlightonariver it is pretty fun, lol

  • those of u who don't support socialize healthcare are not only selfish...but inhuman! as a canadian we aren't forced to go into massive dept to pay for medical bills. we aren't forced to die cause we ain't part of the elite! get off your ass....grow a brain...and finally vote FOR it...not mindlessly and selfishly oppose it! wake up!

  • so you don't consider art work? yeah ok. maintain a healthy weight? so, who fucking cares? so now you don't want to heal people no matter what their case? meh whatever.. i'm tired of arguing.

  • @jonpo123 Screw you! What if you were that guy?!? t(>.<t)

  • @DeathWalkerX10 what guy?

  • People hate Michael Moore, why? Just because Rush and O'reilly tell them too? At least he cares for the real American people.

  • @jonpo123 No, I hate Michael Moore because he preaches socialize health care but with his time and money he doesn't maintain a healthy weight, making him a liability to any health care system. He claims he is for the middle and lower hard working American class but yet he never worked a day in his life so he doesn't know what it is like to be in their shoes. He wants these great things in America to happen but he doesn't want to do the necessary work himself to see to it that they happen.

  • money > life

    thats the awful truth.

  • A conservative would say that he is not entitled to a pancreas, he needs to pay for it out of his own pocket. After all, why should WE all have to pay for HIS pancreas? As for Humana, Michael Moore has probably saved more lives than they have. I am sorry to hear that this young man died, but he was able to give his family another 3 1/2 years. If we had a single payer system, this and Jan Brewer's AZ death panels would not have to happen. Profiting from illness and death...THAT'S sick.

  • Yes, this is an awesome video. That is my dad and I'm the girl in the pink on the swing set

  • just like sick0 the lady whose husband died becuse they told him his case was experimental so very sad

  • This is my uncle! He passed away 3 1/2 years ago. I miss him still to this day!! I love you so much, and wish you were still here. He got the transplant, but died 3 years after!!

  • @ryy12 Ry i love you its brittany<3

  • @ryy12 that sucks. Well just so you know, his story and the bravery he showed in this clip is a huge inspiration and probably one of the most telling things about our health care system. Your uncle wasa fuckin badass.

  • hey now ! the good ol' USA was built on corporate GREED, and the blood and skin of SLAVE labor !! GOD BLESS AMERICA !!

  • free healthcare is the best thing... I was shocked when I had to pay $25 for my xray when I broke my ancle and had to operate... we are becoming too americanized...

  • fuck yeah thats badass

  • Its sad that they eventually agreed to pay for his transplant not through compassion but through embarrassment.

  • If you have a problem with your HMO, get a different one. Thats how capitalism works. If a business doesnt provide what their customers need, their customers go somewhere else and that business fails. Which is why there shouldnt be such a thing as "too big to fail" and why government should stay out of the economy.

  • @MovieTheaterHead Actually, not everybody has the privilege of moving to a different HMO because they may not be able to afford it. Ought one die because they are underemployed in a hard economy? Furthermore, the fact of the matter is in a capitalist economy, the market depends on businesses like this and they are too big to fail and they will get bailed out, as you have seen. Capitalism in it of itself is flawed and that is why the government has stepped out.

  • @Debordsbullet So that's why Ford is still making vehicles and still thriving as a company when they didn't take the bailout money? How does it make sense to give Chrysler billions of our tax dollars just we can give them more money to buy cars from them? Where are you from?

  • @MovieTheaterHead I didn't say I agreed with bailouts. I was just pointing out the fact that the reason the government steps in concerning economic matters is because of the structural instability of capitalism. The commodity is self antagonistic in-it-of-it-self. The point I was making was that not everyone has the choice to change providers due to financial issues. One can work two full time jobs and still come up short financially. Did you write your response straight from a tea party site?

  • @Debordsbullet What commodity are you talking about that is "self antagonistic"? And no I've never been to a tea party website, this is what I believe and how I view the world. Where are you from?

  • @MovieTheaterHead I'm not talking about a specific commodity. I am talking about the commodity structure, the foundation of capitalism. It may be your very precious view or opinion, but it isn't consistent with reality. Why the hell does it matter where I'm from?

  • @Debordsbullet So you're saying that everything should have the same value and be doled out equally to everyone including the ones who are undeserving? And you also think that the way this country has been thriving for over 200 years isn't based in reality?!? Cuz that isn't far-fetched. I'm curious where you're from because I want to know what kind of background you have.

  • Hard day at the office!

  • I'm Canadian and this is disgusting to watch..you guys have some major problems down south.

  • I like so much.......................

  • If someone comes into my office and says " if you do not do this, i will die and my children will grow up without a father" and i say no just to make a quick buck, i would have a hard time sleeping at night. It discusting how some people do it every day.

  • Kaiser Permanent is worse than Humana!!  Kaiser kills!

  • @1algaeman And pays for fertility treatments for Octomom.

  • Pocono Environmental Coalition

  • I love that Shirt lol

  • Thank you Michael and Chris!!!. Great accomplishment!!! I LOVE YOU MICHAEL MOORE.

  • I,m from CANADA and my true story will blow your mind ! A Squirrel, was struck by a car in front of my home last summer so I was told to rush the little guy 25 minutes to an animal recovery center in Midland Ontario Canada.

    A surgical team in full gowns rushed the poor little Squirrel into surgery to save his life.I found out in the waitnig room that they just drove an injured BEAVER to THUNDER BAY ONTARIO for physiotherapy.

    Wild Canadian animals..... have free health Care ????

  • @RETIREMESOON YES!!!!........CANADA RULES! from Toronto!

  • @RETIREMESOON

    You're so right! We "human beings" in AMERIKA are of less value than common animals, if we can't pay for our own medical coverage. We're so lucky that our CONGRESS has the finest health coverage that OUR tax money can provide them. I sleep better at night knowing that even if cancer kills me and my entire family, my political representatives will live healthy and go on to tax and suck the next generation of voters dry. But border jumping Mexicans get free care. What a country!

  • living in Canada, it amazes me to see this stuff. Its absolutely disgusting. Canada isnt perfect by any means- but its a hell of a lot less greedy and corrupted. I hope Obama changes this

  • that greg donaldson fella is a sad excuse for a man!

  • I hate America and everything the corrupt government represents. THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON AND THEY ARE US.

  • That's the secret in America Americans buy insurance and then the big ticket items are refused regularly .The people working for those insurance companies are vampires.Profits go up if they let you die.

  • Comprehensive good healthcare is affordable in the USA by way of reducing spending on pork and other nonsense, like foreign aid. taxes nor premiums need go up. It does not make sense to legalize drugs and pay for healthcare with taxes on drugs. We have to recreational keep drugs away from the idiots, who will increase the healthcare burden if they use more drugs. The free market can work, as Mr. Moore has shown.

  • This guy is such an idiot!!! He is such a waste.

  • America: where the rich get richer and poor get poorer

  • respect

  • LOL OMFG! Michael Moore rocks! That's how you do it! Take it to their door and make it real! "Wake up call - new world order - revised" is something you need to watch, it will change your life.

  • listen to the way the 'worldwide relations' guy talks and spews his generic corporate 'mission statement' bullshit about being 'committed' to the 'health of (their) members'. fucking corporate robots programmed to spew garbage while they continue to squeeze pennies from the bodies of dying people that pay them and trust them. fucking weasel.

    it's wonderful this man's life was saved, but hundreds more die for humana's bottom line. fuck the entire industry.

  • the usa is shit and the health care is about  the dollar fuck you all usa piga . Voces sao merda portugal e mehlor .

  • I know it all worked out in the end I was just saying if it didn't Michael Moore should help him but in the end he didn't have to I know that he would.

  • OMG OMG Im an Aussie this is shocking to me how can someone deny health care to another human wow

  • See why there is all this heavy health reform opposition? I saw on the news, and i quote it said "American people dont want health reform" From a political spokesperson. I not only dont know what is in the health reform proposed, but i would actually like to have some sort of coverage. EVERY canadian i know, and thats about 20 of them, are happy with their system, and pity americans, contrairy to what is shown on the news here.

  • Insurance companies should be made to either pay for the services promised or pay the money back.

  • @spindlegrinder

    the guy wasnt paying michael for 7 years,he was paying hemana and humana should do the transplant

  • For all of Mike's wonderful work, this one single segment stands out as his best.

  • Im feeling sorry for the insurance guy, hes so pathetic...

  • Although this is an understatement. Way to go Michael!

  • FUCK U HATERS MICHAEL IS THE SHI'IT :D

  • Moore is the man

  • I love you so much Michael Moore thank you for all you do!

  • God bless you Michael Moore.

  • these kind of things should'nt happen in a country as rich as the u.s.a !! it's a mark of shame on every american outthere !! and remember this americans : you WANT IT THIS WAY !!!! if you want a decent healthcare system you'll have to pay for it !! its not free !! we dutch have a hmo that does cover everything you need and wont let you die because of money !! it's the mark of a backward nation and it needs to change !! fast !!

  • Corporation ARE EVIL... THEY CONTROL THIS COUNTRY... "Democracy" is A JOKE. The country is RUN by a few wealthy persons. No I am not speaking about DONALD CHUMP. But rather the "OLD MONEY"...

  • I wish everyone in this country could see this video. Just amazing since I also have a 4 year old daughter and the thought she could lose her daddy so some rich bastard can buy another summer home makes me ill. Bravo Mr. Moore !!!! Bravo Chris...be well !!!

  • Makes me sick how rich people put can just tune out a persons life when they have the power to do something. Michael Moore no matter how much you may disagree with some of his views is a hero for saving this mans life for which he surely would have died without

  • that fake funeral was a powerful piece of anti-corporate art.

  • Michael Moore is brilliant as usual!! Health Reform is such a serious matter, I have more than one "pre-existing" conditions. One of the conditions was caused by being rear-ended, by an uninsured driver. Due to this I am no longer able to work and therefore, I am poor. I can't afford insurance. But anyway, Michael Moore is brilliant, inviting this douche-bag to go casket shopping. How cool is that?

  • this is why i love micheal moore & believe he is a real american hero, haters can't deny his heart

  • health care reform is important to me. i have a "pre existing condition" which deems me ineligible for private insurance. i'm covered until under my family plan until my birthday in march. I have little money as I'm an unemployed student. Why is actually getting something out of your taxes wrong? Instead of bombing countries, let's keep Americans healthy. It's pure social responsibility of the government's part.

  • isnt the usa grand ???? the greatest country in the world !! ( so they say, but will let children die for paper !!)

  • Michael Moore brings tears to my eyes in this one. Really strong stance for someone's life, not accepting the shuck & jive from Humana. Bravo Moore & Chris!

  • I could be Christopher Donahue myself,Ive had Diabetes for 22 years!

    Michael Moore is a Hero in my eyes!

  • michael moore is a hero....this is brilliant....corporate greed and corruption is the main problem on this planet....time to wake up!!!

  • @elrito1 Even worse than that is the ignorance of it! 

  • Michael Moore fucking ROOLZ!!!!!

  • michael moore is awesome

  • damn .. this is why i like michael moore, great job. Too bad it didn't have affect on bigger scale. Americans, get yourself universal healthcare system and kick insurance companys

  • Shareholders taking billions off sick people..

  • and americans still dont want health care? idiots

  • They do.. The repubs dont because they are being paid off and or greedy.

  • We need people like Michael Moore in the world to fight against these kinds of injustices. People like him who fight for change are inspiring

  • @Emerald1234S No people who are on the forefront of the fight against real injustice are the heros. Hes a shill, whos good at gatering his audience. Hes not intrested in objective criticism even though there is TONS of flawas in many of his films. A true documentarian makes a hypothesis and looks at both angles. For example you cant just look at the last mess and say its bushs fault without having serious evidence. And looking at all the angles.

  • That's right...we don't want SYMPATHY or EMPATHY, just do the right thing, Humana. A pancreas is needed!

  • The scene around elevator is beautiful. They deserve to be embarrassed into humility.

  • I like how he cuts him off...." Which one do you like? Mahagony or the Oak?" 5:58

  • Bravo!!!!!!!!!

  • Michael Moore is awesome. I can't wait to see his new movie opening day.

  • Michael Moore is a genius!

  • i completely strive to be michael moore when I graduate from college. He actually changes shit.

  • Its a damn shame that Mike had to go through this to get Humana to do the right thing.

  • Michael Moore passing out those justifying butt-whippins! God Bless you Michael Moore.

  • Thank you Tony Spezia and all of those on the Covenant Health Board of Directors for helping make this possible.

  • I feel so encouraged since Humana is now the insurer for all Covenant Health employees as well as those covered by Cariten. I give my life to you, Humana.

  • A HMO is basically an profit based insurance company that has the power to decide whether it will spend it's profits on a strangers healthcare.

    These HMO's give bonuses and promotions to employees who find ways for the HMO not to pay for vital medical care.

    And the opponents of free health say the government cant be trusted with health.

  • No, wait. We've got it right, and the rest of the developed nations have it wrong. Didn't you know?

  • If thats what it takes to get someone simple operation that will save his life then every opponent to universal free healthcare should go and hide their shame in a cave and never show their faces again.

    Any country that doesn't have free healthcare for all cant call itself CIVILIZED.

  • MM is the bravest american ever!

  • A health maintenance organization (HMO) is a type of managed care organization (MCO) that provides a form of health care coverage in the United States that is fulfilled through hospitals, doctors, and other providers with which the HMO has a contract.

  • What is a HMO.

  • I recently watched Sicko. The film made me tear up. I tried to share the film with my sister but she wanted no part of it, saying Obama this and that. I feel some do not want to see the ugly side of America. Please Obama make it better.

  • Much better just to hang onto their illusions, to nostalgia, whatever. Just doesn't feel good to realize how we undeniably live in a nation that allows people to suffer and die for lack of money.

  • He reminds me so much of Abbie Hoffman. It reminds me of him throwing dollars at the NYC stock exchange. It reminds me of when Abbie tried to exorsize the Pentagon. I think these are kindred spirits (hopefully minus the mental illness and drug abuse).

  • Michael Moore is a God

  • WOW long live MM. You are a true American. I wish to be like you one day even if its only in my dreams.

  • God bless MM

  • michael moore must seem like a god to many of these people, and why not. His hard hitting style is just fantabulous. simply love moore.

  • Moore doesnt fuck around with trivial bullshit.

  • This is the same health care I have. I hope I never have to actually use it.

  • glad to have universal healthcare in germany ^^

    isn´t it cheaper to pay arround 40 $ a month and get help free instead pay thousands of dollars for some illness?

  • Lucky ass bastard!

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  • Michael Moore is my hero! He should be a politician because he will get shit done!

    Health care in Canada is free to everyone too. I can't imagine living in a place that doesn't have free health care.

  • @jipsygal I agree, no matter what people say about michael moore, and I do disagree with some of his opinions, at least he would get shit done.

  • The thing you said about health care being free for everywone in Canada, that's not true. Healthcare in Canada are only for Canadian citizens, if you don't have a Canadian social insurence care the hospital will bill you for the operation.

  • @jipsygal im about to move to canada probably... its hard for me to imagine a country where people care about your health, and dont belive that prayer will cure you

  • @jipsygal it must be nice because I pay at 1300 just to go to the hospital.

  • Insurance companies are an ECONOMIC PARASITE!!!! THEY DO NOTHING BUT MOVE MONEY WHILE TAKING ALOT FOR THEM SELVES. THEY PRODUCE NOTHING THERE FORE THEY ARE WORSE THAN USELESS THEY ARE DAMAGING TO OUR ECONOMY.

  • Isn´t touching your face when you talk a sign of lying, Greg Donaldson?

  • WHY DIDNT HE MAKE AN APPOITMENT WITH HIS BANK,WEARING A SKI MASK AND ROB THE PLACE.NEW PANCREAS PROBLEM SORTED.even judge judy wouldnt blame him for what he did.This is the situation the americans have found yourseves.T hey are quick to stand up and let the politicians create havoc and mass murder around the world.But dont have the conviction to stand up and say FUCK YOU ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

  • insurance companies care only about profit and actually hires people to deny insurance....look it up

  • we should take his approach an ban together for our country ... exposing lies and providing the truth.

  • best video ever

  • Michael Moore we love you

  • this is great!

  • thats a good man

  • So when will you get your braintransplant? cause the one you have clearly isnt funtioning

  • Why the anger? I was just asking a question.

    He has an IMDB page listing The Awful Truth as himself, an episode of Law and Order that people say he was great in, and it says he's been on stage.

  • Different Chris.

  • Here's a tip for serial killers: Work for Humana, you can get away with murder if you do.

  • 18,000. GOOD AMERICANS like Chris die every year and ...YET.....people from the U.S. tell me to keep my socialized FREE MEDICINE in Canada ??? Well,I would rather live in Canada were you get FREE care than die or go broke trying to stay alive...DO I HAVE A AMEN from the quire ?? It's unethical to have a for profit health care system :0(.......

  • AMEN BROTHER

  • @RETIREMESOON agreed im canadian and if i was a U.S citizen i would gladly pay an increase in my taxes to allow guys like him stay alive and save an entire family...

    i guess i must be crazy

  • @RETIREMESOON

    Did that change through Obamas health care reform? I heard he made a reform, but i dont know how the average american feels about it?

  • Learn the truth about Micheal Moore at "Shooting Micheal Moore" & read about him at "Micheal Moore is a Big fat White Man" & "Do as I say and not as I do" lastly, Micheal Moore's got so much money and if he cares so much why don't he pay for the guys operation? (buurrpp)

  • He probably would have paid for the guys opp. if the insurance company didn't come through, but first MM wanted to go to the headquarters and expose the bastards for what they really are and show what ppl. have to go through. Because of his work ppl. who need that kind of opp. now get. Didn't you read the ending ... not only did the guy get his opp. but everyone else under their plan who needs the same one will get it. If MM just paid for it, that would have never happened.

  • BTW: Don't know if you heard or not, but MM said after the movie Sicko was made his num. 1 critic who is always bashing him needed $10,000.00 for treatment that his own health insurer would not pay for and MM paid for it. The guy accepted the check, but afterwards continued to bash him. I sure love a greateful person!

  • Like I said "he's loaded" he took an anti-corporation stand then became a corporation. One that spreads demogoguary, nominalism half-truths and all out lies. check out the film "Shooting Micheal Moore"

  • dud--I'm in MM's home town ans he left it in a shambles. And Humana doesn't represent all health plans or companies, whether you like it or not. The Nationalised healthcare in other countries is simply rationed healthcare and one of the many reason why those countries are going bankrupt. Humana honored the policy and its clauses. MM and the guy didn't like the way they honored it. If the nationalized healthcare is so wonderful in those countries? why don't you, MM and MM's friend go live there.

  • How is it MM's fault Flint, MI is a depressed town? Nationalized healthcare is not rationalized healthcare, it's the guaranteed way for everyone to be treated regardless of their ability to pay. Americans are going bankrupt paying for healthcare and it's not just Humana. Don't you realize, if we can't afford healthcare how are we going to support the rest of the economy? Don't you see how fucked up the economy is because we can't afford to buy stuff, so ppl. lose their jobs, companies go under.

  • Check out "Shooting Micheal Moore" He inspired the UAW to become more fat, lazy and sassy then they where. Those ppl made 40 to 60 grd a year sitting in jobbanks playin cards, watchin tv etc. GM owes them nothing those people where on their work 2 hrs get paid for 8 for far to long. People like you are the reason companies go under because you want to over tax them. Yer rationalized healthcare will be denied to the elderly because there wont be enough Drs and Nurses to compensate. Get real

  • Companies are doing a good enough job going under without nationalized healthcare. Look around you. BTW: Nationalized healthcare means healthcare for all. What part of all don't you understand? For the young and the old. It's not nationalized healthcare that denies people treatment, it's unregulated health insureance companies who have too much power. It's greedy bastards such as yourself.