Turn, Turn, Turn – A Season for Healthcare Policy
Today, I heard the news. President Obama supports the Wyden-Brown amendment allowing states to innovate on healthcare reform. You’ll have to pardon some of us while we readjust the mirrors. Just 20 brief months ago, I recall the trepidation and trauma that surrounded allowing the U.S. House of Representatives Education and ...
Will Vermont’s Babies Have a Better Chance?
As Peter Shumlin was officially sworn in as governor of Vermont, there was and is great hope that at least in one state we may see passage and implementation of a truly universal, single-payer healthcare system. From Shumlin’s January 6, 2011, inaugural address: The rising cost of healthcare for Vermont's ...
Silent Night, Lonely Night 2010
Susan Boyle sings on CNN. Life marches on. Richard Holbrooke is dead. Rest in peace, Ambassador. It is said you put up a valiant fight. Here I sit in Kansas City. No one knows I am alone; no one would grieve if I should die. No breaking news here. Just ...
I have a rule of thumb that's served me well my whole life: whenever corporate executives begin talking about how they support "free markets" and "competition," check to see if you still have your wallet. That's because no one -- not Karl Marx, not Fidel Castro, not your niece who ...
Want to Feel Progressives’ Collective Strength? Attend ‘Fighting Bob Fest’
The labor movement and progressives are supposedly facing their darkest hour in decades, as the Republican steamroller heads toward an inevitable victory on November 2, mobilizing voters against the Democrats in retribution for the ongoing Great Recession.But this fatalism is rejected by many progressives, who believe that the stakes are ...
Robert Gibbs: 'I don't plan on leaving'
Press secretary Robert Gibbs, revisiting a newspaper interview in which he blasted “the professional left” for criticizing President Barack Obama, brushed off calls for his resignation during Wednesday’s daily briefing and said his remarks were the result of frustration with pundits who haven’t given the administration its due."I don’t plan ...
Lee Einer is a former health industry worker turned whistleblower, featured in 'SiCKO.'
August 11th, 2010
SiCKO "Hitman" Exposes the Myths of "Health Reform"
The Democratic Party has recently launched a PR push to assure voters of the wonders of the newly enacted “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” It seems to me that the Democratic Party is at least a little concerned that this controversial legislation might be an albatross around their necks ...
The arrogance of the Bush administration could never be surpassed, right? Wrong! Today, Whore House (again, with my apologies to my sex-worker friends) spokeswhore, Robert Gibbs, was quoted as saying this of the “professional left” who liken Obama to his predecessor: “(They) need to be drug tested,” and that these ...
Expert: State's health care needs help
MONTPELIER – Many of Vermont's health care woes stem from the fact that the state has an ineffective patchwork system of private insurance plans and government-funded programs, a Harvard economist told lawmakers Thursday. Dr. William Hsiao, an economic professor at Harvard's School of Public Health, has been hired by the ...
Sanders promises to seek health care waiver from Obama for Vermont
BELLOWS FALLS, VT — U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., pledged to personally take Vermont’s case for a statewide single-payer health care system to President Obama if the Legislature authorizes it next year.Sanders, speaking at a health care rally at the Hetty Green Park in downtown Bellows Falls on Saturday afternoon, ...
Mom-and-pop shop faces health care dilemma
ROCKPORT, Ind. — Ask Mike Obermeier and he will tell you without question that health care reform is needed. After all, Obermeier said, until recently the United States was one of the few developed countries in the world without a national health care policy.But for Obermeier, the health reform legislation ...
Shumlin unveils economic recovery plan
Montpelier, Vermont — "We're outlining today a vision for Vermont," said Peter Shumlin, a Democrat running for governor of Vermont.Shumlin says his first big change if elected will be making Vermont the first single-payer health care system in the country. Companies told him health care costs are a top concern."That ...
It’s About Human Rights, Not the Money
No matter which intellectual or which political candidate or which self-righteous activist from which camp on the right or the left or anywhere in-between says differently, the absolute need to reform and transform our healthcare system still rests in the outing of the human rights violations and the human suffering. ...
Kelliher Proposes Bold Minn. Health Care Plan
Getting healthy is a major focus of the 2010 campaign for governor in Minnesota, and democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher is promising to insure every person in Minnesota by the end of her first term.Anderson Kelliher is going further than any other candidate. She said Minnesota needs more than a health ...
Single Payer Keeps Moving Forward
When you boil it down, single payer means the state becomes THE health insurance company. Proponents of the single payer system say it is cheaper and provides better results than the private health care model. And at the state Capitol Tuesday, those proponents filled a committee room and spilled out ...
U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), an outspoken critic of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has co-sponsored proposed legislation that would end supplemental funding for both wars and use the money to deliver a tax break to all Americans.The "War is Making You Poor Act," introduced in the House ...
US Social Forum in Detroit: Activists Converge on Motor City
The summer sun was hot as marchers made their way down Woodward back to Cobo Hall in Detroit for the opening ceremonies of the US Social Forum. But spirits were high and the collective energy of so many activists devoted to social justice gathering in one place was more than ...
American SiCKOs Head to Detroit
WASHINGTON - June 21 - Three women who were featured in Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, SiCKO, will be marching, meeting and speaking in support of healthcare as a basic human right in the United States this week in Detroit at the U.S Social Forum. Each woman will convey the message ...
McDermott says health care reform is only the first step
U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, calling the nation’s new health care law “the biggest change in social policy since 1930,” told Islanders he’s running for a 12th term in the House because the landmark legislation needs much more work. Sounding at once both pleased by what Congress accomplished and frustrated by ...
UAW protester briefly detained
A UAW dissident was briefly detained at Cobo Center in Detroit today for allegedly distributing leaflets for that promote health care reform and other changes at the union.Alan Benchich, a UAW retiree and elected delegate for the union’s 35th Constitutional Convention, was carrying the leaflets, but said he was not ...
Doctor makes case for single-payer care
PORTSMOUTH, NH — More than 100 business owners, health care professionals, patients and elected officials gathered Thursday to learn about a single-payer health care system, many stating their support.Dr. Oliver Fein, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, presented "Everybody In, Nobody Out, One Group, One Plan, One Rate," ...
President Barack Obama pitches health care overhaul to seniors, including Amherst Senior Center
WHEATON, Md. - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors, including those in Amherst, Mass., launching a defense of his presidency’s biggest accomplishment as the election season gets under way and the Gulf oil spill dominates news. The questions Obama got from ...
Fighting For Healthcare Reform
Some people who fought for healthcare reform, are now holding their applause. Tuesday night, North Alabama Healthcare For All held an event to question "what's wrong with the new healthcare law?"It's a group that fought hard for healthcare reform, but not for the bill that passed. Now they're taking a step back, ...
Pallor and Pain; Sorrow and Stain
Over this past weekend, I watched more coverage on the BP Gulf oil spill and felt this growing sense of deep sadness and rage. The spill threatens so much more than we can yet fathom as we see this most recent fouling of our planet unfolding slowly, steadily and insistently ...
Click here to suggest an article
January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
Michael Moore on Conan, 12/7/11
Michael Moore on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 11/21/11
Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 11/15/11
Michael Moore on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 11/9/11
