Kurt Loder from MTV has already started the shameful task of attempting to falsely discredit Moore's assertions in the movie "Sicko". He audaciously states:
"His cherry-picked facts, manipulative interviews (with lingering close-ups of distraught people breaking down in tears) and blithe assertions (how does he know 18 million people will die this year because they have no health insurance?) are so stacked that you can feel his whole argument sliding sideways as the picture unspools."
Kurt Loder uses this lie to unload an entire article attempting to portray "Sicko" as a "heavily doctored" film. What a freakin’ dichotomy. WHAT A SHAM!
Michael Moore never stated 18 million people. Michael Moore said 18,000 people. Way to go Kurt Loder. I could see if he wrote 18,000,000 vice 18 million, and meant 18,000. But he actually spells out 18 million. So this is no typo Kossacks. What a farce.
So let me get this straight. In an effort to discredit Michael Moore for using "blithe assertions" (actual facts that are backed up by the Institute of Medicine), Kurt Loder uses lies and false assertions to support his argument?
IOM's site states: "Lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States"
UPDATE (I just watched it again and took notes).
Another example of Kurt Loder's cursory and deceptive ruse is this:
"There's a woman whose husband was prescribed new drugs to combat his cancer, but couldn't get their insurance company to pay for them because the drugs were experimental. Her husband died."
The woman that Loder is talking about is Julie Pierce and he failed to use the facts of her story.
It was not drugs that her husband (Tracy Pierce) was denied. It was a bone marrow transplant! Their insurance company stated that the transplant was an "experimental procedure." So, after searching for a matching donor and finding one (his youngest brother), First Health denied the procedure because it was considered "experimental". So even though her husband’s doctor was encouraging this, and bone marrow transplants have been proven to be effective in treating cancer, it was denied and stated that a proven procedure was experimental. IMO, that is homicide.
My point is Kurt Loder did not even have enough respect for these people to get their story straight. The example he used was not about experimental drugs, it was about a proven method of treatment (bone marrow transplant), PROVEN!
I am thinking that Kurt failed to even see this movie. How many other "news" stories are out there like this?