Sicko Page #3

(answerphone) Tuesday. 8.:54 am.

Obviously all this worked because Annette

is going to get her second implant in July.

(woman) "Dear Mike.

I work in the industry. "

(woman #2) "I work for an HMO."

(Moore) I started to get hundreds of letters

of a different sort

from people who work inside

the healthcare industry.

They'd seen everything

and they were fed up with it.

(man #2) "Health insurance

companies suck. Flat suck. "

(Moore) Like Becky Malke. Who was

in charge of keeping sick people away

from one of America's

top insurance companies.

(Becky) I work in a call center, so people

call in and ask for insurance quotes.

There are certain preexisting conditions,

basically industry-wide,

that will not be covered -

diabetes, heart disease,

certain forms of cancer.

If you have these conditions, you are likely

not going to get your health insurance.

(Moore) How long is this list of conditions

that make you ineligible?

It would be a really long list.

It would be a long list.

It could wrap around this house.

(# "Star Wars" theme plays)

Sometimes you know they're gonna

be declined at the end of the application,

and they're like...

God, like one time I had a couple,

and they were so happy to get...

I'm gonna cry.

They were so happy that they were...

I took them through this application.

And the husband was late for work.

And the wife said to him,

"Don't worry, baby, it's gonna be OK."

"We have health insurance now."

And when I looked, I could tell

they were gonna get declined

because of their health conditions.

And they were so happy.

I thought, "God, they're gonna get

that call in a couple of weeks

telling them

that they're not eligible for insurance."

I just felt so bad

'cause I just really thought

and I knew

and I couldn't say anything to them.

I just felt like crap.

That's why I'm such a b*tch

on the phone to people,

because I don't wanna

get to know them,

I don't wanna know about their lives,

I just wanna get in and out,

and get done with it

'cause I can't take the stress of it.

(Moore) In spite of Becky being

a bit of a pain on the phone.

A quarter billion Americans

are still able to get health insurance.

Let's meet some of these

happy insured customers.

Maria has BlueShield.

And Diane. Horizon BlueCross.

BCS insures Laurel.

And Caroline has CIGNA.

And it's a good thing

that they're all fully covered.

I ended up being diagnosed

with retroperitoneal cancer.

- Brain tumor.

- Breast cancer.

Brain tumor on the right temporal lobe.

(Moore) As they were insured. They got the

red-carpet treatment at the doctor's office.

She requested for me

to see a neurologist.

The way they would treat it

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