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"Sicko" will surely stir the healthcare pot

Patient Financial Services Weekly Advisor, June 22, 2007

If insurers aren't feeling the heat yet, they likely soon will when Michael Moore's documentary, "Sicko," hits movie theaters this weekend, reports the Hartford Courant.

Moore attacks the healthcare industry in America, specifically the role large insurers play in tales of patient-dumping and denials.

Insurers say they're not worried about the movie release, even though Moore's previous films, such as "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 911" were wildly popular.

Moore, who is an advocate for a single-payer, government-run system, held a rally last week in Sacramento to wage "a war against health insurance companies, who are more interested in lining their pockets than caring for the people of the United States of America."

America's Health Insurance Plans, a national trade group, has been defusing Moore's call for a single-payer system. "I think it's very, very clear the American people don't support a government takeover of the healthcare arena," Karen Ignagni, the trade group's president and chief executive, said in an interview Tuesday.

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