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A Trip Down SICKO Lane with Michael Moore

by Mike Hall, AFL-CIO (reposted)
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 : Film maker Michael Moore, whose new film "Sicko" vividly shows the failures of the nation's health care system, and members the California Nurses Association, including union president Deborah Burger (top left), met with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and others to discuss health care reform.
Weather delays forced Michael Moore to miss his scheduled appearance this morning at Day 3 of the Take Back America 2007 conference in Washington, D.C.

But Moore, director of the soon-to-be-premiered, and widely anticipated indictment of the nation’s health care system, “ Sicko ,” made it in time for a quick meeting here at the AFL-CIO to talk about health care reform.

Several nurses and doctors, part of a “Scrubs For Sicko” bus tour to promo the film, joined Moore. The film highlights our nation’s desperate need for reform that guarantees health care for all—and that prevents the insurance industry from denying care and the drug companies from profiting through price gouging. Several members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee ( CNA/NNOC ), including union president Deborah Burger, accompanied Moore.

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