Could it be true? The Guardian says so.
This is an issue in which the patient's perspective needs some attention, and unfortunately organized medicine (the American Medical Association) is more concerned with the medical malpractice issue than with serious health care reform. It's nice to know that the American Medical Student Association, an independent student-run organization, has supported major healthcare reforms, including single-payer national health insurance, people-based incremental reforms in health insurance, eliminatng health disparities, getting corporate influence out of medicine (pharm-free campaign to stop accepting bribes from drug companies, etc) and health care workforce issues, among others, for a long time.
An excerpt from the article that describes Moore's possible next project:
The director and author will attempt to save as many lives as he can by simply intervening with his camera crew during the course of 90 minutes of filming. He hopes to embarrass health insurance companies and hospitals into continuing to care for patients with no cover - highlighting holes in the American system...
Moore said he had the idea when making his TV show, The Awful Truth, shown in Britain on Channel 4. 'We had this guy who was going to die because his HMO [insurers] wouldn't pay for his transplant so we went with him and conducted a funeral rehearsal,' said Moore. 'The HMO was ashamed and paid for the transplant and he lives to this day.'
Since health care reform is something that's on peoples' minds (and not only the most marginalized populations' minds), and the dems and republicans aren't speaking up enough about it, and the media isn't talking at all about solutions, I'm glad to know that Moore's looking to expose another corrupt profiteering situation.
(this is my first dailykos diary entry, and as a 4th year medical student, healthcare reform fanatic, i'll probably be posting more on this topic, as well as others. More of my posts can be found on to the teeth, a group blog with other idealism and action based students and docs.