Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30

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June 19th, 2012 1:19 PM

Michael Moore to Headline 5th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30

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Michael Moore to Headline 5^th Anniversary Event in Philadelphia on June 30

Philadelphia—Five years after his award-winning film on the U.S. healthcare system premiered around the world, Michael Moore returns to Philadelphia with eight of the subjects of the film in tow. They’ll be joined by health insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter who once spied on them all for the industry as the film opened back in 2007 but who now joins them in the fight for a more sane and humane healthcare system.

Moore will be on stage at Plays and Players Theater for a retrospective look at why he made SiCKO and what he hoped the film would do to advance the cause for healthcare justice and to take a look at what has happened since then as the Supreme Court rules on the Affordable Care Act and Americans are left wondering what’s next for their own access to care. Patty Eakin, RN, from the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP) will join in the event with many other Pennsylvania advocates for health system reform, and the national advocacy group and Philadelphia-based Healthcare-NOW.

The SiCKO subjects attending in Philadelphia include two of the three 9/11 responders from NYC, Reggie Cervantes and Billy Maher; two SiCKO subjects who lost loved ones to the broken system, Dawnelle Keys and Julie Pierce; Lee Einer, who was SiCKO’s own health insurance industry whistleblower; Adrian Campbell Montgomery who slipped over the boarder to Canada to get care for herself and her young daughter; and Larry and Donna Smith, who lost everything they had to healthcare expenses though they always carried health insurance.

WHAT: Still SiCKO After All These Years, with Michael Moore, Wendell Potter and the subjects of SiCKO

WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday, June 30^th, 2012

WHERE: Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey Street, Philadelphia

Public invited, seating is limited. Tickets Available On-line. First come, first served

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