A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore

In the United States, we have a whopping 1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE, vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country! That’s all you need to know about America.

Epic Michael Moore.

And professional people asking him if he condones murder... I guess the iq in that country is at the lowest point ever.

These insurance corporations and their executives have more blood on their hands than a thousand 9/11 terrorists. And that’s why they are scrubbing their executives’ profiles from their websites and putting up fences around their headquarters. Because they know what they have done. You can’t be the CEO of a company where you knowingly deny care to people — often leading to their deaths — and not have people mad at you, people hate you, people who have no pity for you because you have no pity for them.

Nailed it.

I have seen people talk shit about Michael Moore many times but some of his documentaries are cultural touch points. Sicko was one of them. I'm willing to bet that millions of people who watched it had no idea how bad things were prior to seeing it.

And before someone says something about how "but it didn't make anyone angry enough to change the system!"

Yeah well nothing else did either. Popular awareness is always the first step. And even if it takes decades for things to start changing, it's still a step worth taking

Everyone should read the full post, it’s very well written.

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’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.

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 — 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 — that this “health care” industry has levied against the American people for decades. With no one standing in their way! Just a government — two broken parties — enabling this INDUSTRY’s theft and, yes, murder.

Moore gets this bc unlike DC and its ilk, he’s been one of “us”. I hope he continues to get people fired up about this.

But the politicians and the pundits and the headlines aren’t telling you that. Just like they aren’t telling you the truth about this crime. They’re so busy telling you not to riot and not to participate in an uprising against their advertisers and campaign funders that they won’t tell you what this really is — a RICH ON RICH crime! Luigi, a young rich man with a couple of Ivy League degrees, scion of a family that owns 2 of the biggest country clubs in Maryland and who is in line to inherit a chain of nursing homes — in other words, scion of a family that’s enriched themselves off a broken healthcare system by bilking retirees and their families in their end-of-days — this young, rich man with an ax to grind against another multi-millionaire, a CEO facing a Justice Department anti-trust investigation, as well as accusations of bilking tax payers in Medicaid/Medicare schemes and of participating in illegal insider trading.

Hadn’t thought of the “rich on rich” angle but he’s right. Too bad it won’t be catching 🦠

Thanks very much for the post/link!