{"id":38219,"date":"2024-12-14T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=38219"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T21:02:09","slug":"a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health-insurance-companies-by-michael-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health-insurance-companies-by-michael-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies \u2014 by Michael Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare \u2014SICKO \u2014 for FREE\u2026 and let\u2019s end and replace this so-called \u201chealth care system\u201d NOW<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>MICHAEL MOORE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEC 13, 2024 (michaelmoore.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s been three days since Luigi Mangione\u2019s manifesto was discovered in his backpack explaining why he assassinated the CEO of United HealthCare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mangione\u2019s manifesto, he said that he was not the \u201cmost qualified person to lay out the full argument\u201d<\/em> against our for-profit healthcare industry. Apparently, to Mangione, one of those qualified people \u2014 is me. In his manifesto, he references how I\u2019ve \u201cilluminated the corruption and greed,\u201d<\/em> implying folks should go to my work to understand the complexity \u2014 and the power-hungry abuse \u2014 within our current system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not often that my work gets a killer five-star review from an actual killer. And thus, my phone has been ringing off the hook which is bad news because my phone doesn\u2019t have a hook. Emails are pouring in. Text messages. Requests from many in the media. The messages all sound something like this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLuigi mentioned you in his manifesto. That people should listen to you. Will you come on our show, or talk to our reporter and tell them that you condemn murder!?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm. Do I condemn murder? That\u2019s an odd question. In Fahrenheit 9\/11, I condemned the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people and the senseless murder of our own American soldiers at the hands of our American government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bowling for Columbine, I condemned the murder of 50,000 Americans every year at the hands of our gun industry and our politicians who do nothing to stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my 35 years as a filmmaker, have I said or done anything<\/em> that has implied I condone<\/em> murder? As a teenager during the Vietnam War, I was required to register for the draft at the local draft board. There was a box on the form asking me if I had a problem with killing Vietnamese people. Actually, it just asked me to check the box if I was going to file for Conscientious Objector status \u2014 meaning, if given the opportunity, would I swear that I would never kill a Vietnamese person. I checked the box. Throughout my adult life, I have repeatedly stated that I\u2019m a pacifist. In fact, I have never struck another human in my life. Not even on the playground. I was taller and bigger than the other boys so they mostly left me alone. Usually I was the one who would try to stop the bullies from picking on the smaller kids. When they\u2019d start swinging at me, I would wrap my arms around them, pinning their arms to their sides in my \u201chuman straitjacket\u201d and not letting them go until they stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a sad statistic for you: In the United States, we have a whopping 1.4 million people<\/strong> employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE, vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country! That\u2019s all you need to know about America. We pay more people to deny care than to give it. 1 million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care. If the purpose of \u201chealth care\u201d is to keep people alive, then what is the purpose of DENYING PEOPLE HEALTH CARE? Other than to kill them? I definitely condemn that kind of murder. And in fact, I already did. In 2007, I made a film \u2013 SICKO \u2013 about America\u2019s bloodthirsty, profit-driven and murderous health insurance system. It was nominated for an Oscar. It\u2019s the second-largest grossing film of my career (after Fahrenheit 9\/11). And over the past 15 years, millions upon millions of people have watched it including, apparently, Luigi Mangione.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the killing of the CEO of United HealthCare, the largest of these billion dollar insurance companies, there was an immediate OUTPOURING of anger toward the health insurance industry. Some people have stepped forward to condemn this anger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The anger is 1000% justified. It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I\u2019m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because this anger is not about the killing of a CEO. If everyone who was angry was ready to kill the CEOs, the CEOs would already be dead. That is not what this reaction is about. It is about the mass death and misery \u2014 the physical pain, the mental abuse, the medical debt, the bankruptcies in the face of denied claims and denied care and bottomless deductibles on top of ballooning premiums \u2014 that this \u201chealth care\u201d industry has levied against the American people for decades. With no one standing in their way! Just a government \u2014 two broken parties \u2014 enabling<\/em> this INDUSTRY\u2019s theft and, yes, murder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now the press is calling me to ask, \u201cWhy are people angry, Mike? Do you condemn murder, Mike?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I condemn murder, and that\u2019s why I condemn America\u2019s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who takes their money and keeps this system going instead of tearing it up, ripping it apart, and throwing it all away. We need to replace this system with something sane, something caring and loving \u2014 something that keeps people alive<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a moment where we can create that change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But instead, what are we doing? What are our \u201cleaders\u201d doing? What is the Democratic Party doing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what they are doing \u2014 THIS is why people are angry. Listen to an everyday American on TikTok: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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