Scores crowd Michael Moore to hear him speak in DC

[marmar]

from RawStory, via MichaelMoore.com:


June 20th, 2007 8:31 pm
Scores crowd Michael Moore to hear him speak in DC

By Nick Juliano / RawStory

They were lined up in droves outside a congressional hearing room as scores more packed the aisles -- women in bright Code Pink T-shirts, interns in suits and ties, jean-clad bloggers, traditional reporters and members of Congress -- all to hear Michael Moore's solutions to the health-care crisis.

Moore's new movie, SiCKO, which RAW STORY reviewed Tuesday, profiles Americans who found their lives ruined because insurance companies provided inadequate care.

"There's a new villain on screens ... but it's not the villain you'll see in Spider Man or Harry Potter," Moore told the crowd at a Wednesday press conference. "The villain is the health insurance industry of America."

Moore was joined by a handful of lawmakers who are sponsoring legislation aimed at creating a single-payer universal health care system in the US. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the legislation's main sponsor, said Moore's movie is the most important development in the health care debate since former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton tried for universal health care legislation in the early 1990s.

Conyers compared his fight to enact universal health care to his efforts in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death to create a national holiday in honor of the civil rights leader. In both cases, Conyers said, his colleagues in the House confided privately that they supported his bill but told him, "You know you can't win."

"I'm going to take that, 'You know you can't win,' and turn it into, 'Together we all can win," Conyers said. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=9918

[Spinzonner]

1. With a Rightest Supreme Court

What makes people think they won't find a way to sabotage it ?

[Locrian]

2. love his proposal

Michael Moore's Health Care Proposal
Prescription for Change

1) Every American must have full, uninterrupted health care coverage for life.
2) Private, for-profit health insurance companies must be abolished.
3) Profits of pharmaceutical companies must be strictly regulated like a public utility.


2 and 3 though would start a propaganda / class war like we have never seen before. I hope it does, it's time we start REALLY demanding an end to the corporatist raping of our country and planet.