Could Oscar shine his powerful beam on health care reform this year as he did last year on global warming? Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose documentary “Sicko” is nominated for an Academy Award, would like that.
“I think a number of people out here hope the film wins,” Moore said from Hollywood on a conference call with patients from his film. “They talk about ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ last year really putting the issue of global warming much more strongly on the political agenda. If that can happen Sunday with ‘Sicko’ — all the better.”
Moore says that Hollywood actually has quite good health care coverage. “I am a member of the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild and we actually have, as far as American insurance goes, pretty good insurance,” he said.
Moore says that the Hollywood movers and shakers he has encountered in what he called “Oscar week craziness” want to help him in his crusade for government-supported universal health care, like Canada’s system. His advice: use their influence with Democratic presidential contenders Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. “Please talk to them about this and get them on the right path. They are having nutty debates about who is going to mandate, how many people,” he tells the power players.
If Moore wins a second Oscar Sunday, he promises to have a safer acceptance speech than in 2003, when he was “booed off the stage” for coming out against the war in Iraq after winning best documentary for “Bowling for Columbine.”
“If I win, I am going to stick to thanking my stylist, my rolfer and my pedicurist and leave it at that.”
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- Posted by jimI will agree the health care system needs to be fixed. Before, I write about how I feel, I want to say I know there are truely families that cannot afford health insurance and they do not have any luxuries, those are not the one’s I am talking about.
The one’s that could afford health insurance, but say they can’t need to take care of their necessities first. Such as, food, housing, utilities and insurance, including health insurance. A lot of the people that do not have health insurance, if they got rid of their big luxuries cars, big screen TV’s, DVD players, cell phone’s, cabin’s on a lake or up in the mountain’s and any extra’s that they really don’t need they could afford health insurance.
Also if your making over $50,000 thousand dollars a year and can’t afford health insurance your doing something wrong. Now I know there are exception’s to this, such as if you have a pre-existing condition. I do feel a pre-existing condition should not even be considered, when it comes to health insurance.
Until people take responsibility for themselves and take care of their necessities first, don’t ask me to give up more of my money, so they can keep their luxuries. You see I have taken care of my necessities, but the only luxuries I have are 1 cell phone and a VHS player and the only reason I have that is it came with the TV that I bought. My income does not allow me to have any other luxuries.
I can go on about other reason’s why health insurance is so high.
Robert Kovac
- Posted by Robert Kovac