The first signs that the bloated healthcare bureaucracy supporting the 'Nanny Corporation' has mobilized its minions, to fight Michael Moore and "Sicko". Recalling,
I can just hear the thousands of private health insurance boosters - recall that there are three to four times as many health industry lobbyists in Washington than there are members of Congress, all of whose Blackberrys are working overtime this weekend! -- who are secreted away, probably this very moment ...
systematic problems dismissed (as always) as "mistakes" and "cracks", deaths contrasted with smiling children, and a slew of PR to make insurance industry executives look like Mother Theresa, working hard to provide 'affordability', with "Big Government" regulation the real culprit and, of course, those horrible, nasty trial lawyers who inject even a shred of accountability into the system portrayed as the bane of everything patriotic and 'American'.
We know the drill. At least some of us.
Even if they paid away just one year of profits over the course of the upcoming fight, they would outspend poor Mr. Moore something like a gazillion-to-one.
Anyway, the first step appears to be to assert that the U.S. does not rank as number 37 in healthcare afterall, because Americans are 'happy hobbits in health' (if you remember the reference to that snarky movie review AS posted).
Let's see, in the upcoming months, whether those who see Moore as a 'studied liar' and a 'propagandist' are willing to say the same about the likes of ads that show lines like this (pictured below. more: ThinkProgress). Will CNN do a "fact-check"?
"Fight Early. Fight Dirty. Concede Nothing." Could be the motto of the upcoming Insurance Industry fight for the perpetuation of the failed 'Nanncy Corporation' model of healthcare.
