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The girl said, "Frank, this is $ 213."

"What, for a painkiller?"

- I didn't take it.

- I backed off. I said, "I gotta come back."

What's in them? What's in these

new drugs that they distribute?

I don't believe you need

half of the things they tell you.

I have never taken medication now,

as I'm getting older.

I don't even like to take an aspirin.

I do like a little brandy.

I don't really know how this happened, but

the trunk came forward into the back seat.

(man) Laura Burnham was in a head-on

collision that knocked her out cold.

Paramedics got her out of the car and into

an ambulance for a trip to the hospital.

I get a bill from my insurance company

telling me that the ambulance ride

was not going to be paid for,

because it wasn't preapproved.

I don't know exactly when I was supposed

to preapprove it, you know?

Like after I gain consciousness in the car,

before I got in the ambulance?

I should have grabbed my cellphone

off the street and called in the ambulance?

I mean, it's just crazy.

(woman) I applied for

HealthNet insurance for Jason.

They rejected him

because of his height and weight.

Jason is six feet tall

and 130 pounds.

I applied for healthcare

through BlueCross BlueShield

and they told me

that my body mass index was too high.

I'm 5' 1 ",

I weigh 175 pounds.

(man) I always thought health insurance

companies were there to help us.

So I posted a note on the internet.

Asking people if they had had

any similar stories

about problems

with their insurance company.

Within 24 hours.

I had over 3700 responses.

And by the end of the week.

Over 25.000 people

had sent me

their healthcare horror stories.

Some of them decided

not to wait for me to get back to them.

Like Doug Noe. Who took matters into

his own hands. Without my permission.

His daughter was nine months old when

they discovered she was going deaf.

His health insurance company.

CIGNA.

Said they'd pay for an implant

in only one of her ears.

According to the letter they sent.

It's experimental

for her to hear in to ears.

If a cochlear implant

is good for one ear,

it doesn't even make any sense that

it wouldn't be good for the second ear.

Especially when a child

is just starting to learn how to talk,

she has to learn

from both sides of her head.

(Moore) That's when he sat down

to write CIGNA a letter.

This is to CIGNA.

"Noted filmmaker Michael Moore

is in the process of gathering information

for his next film."

"I've sent information concerning CIGNA's

lack of caring for its policy holders."

"Has your CEO ever been

in a film before?"

(Moore) Before he knew it. He received

a call on his voice mail from CIGNA.

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