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Google to HMOs: pay us and we'll defuse "Sicko"

Tags: Google + HMO + Sicko + Michael Moore

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Posted by V 1 year 5 months ago; via blog.outer-court.com/arch...

Google's "Health Advertising Team" is trying to sell the health industry on buying ads to be shown opposite searches for "Sicko." The idea is to counter Michael Moore's amazing, enraging, must-see indictment of the health industry's grip on American society by running ads over search results for Sicko.

"It’s unusual for a Google department to do peppered movie reviews. In Google’s health advertising blog – which is, well, trying to sell Google ads to the health industry – they talk about Michael Moore’s movie Sicko:
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Drug Companies Plan Assault Against Michael Moore

Tags: Michael Moore + Sicko + Documentary + Healthcare + Pharmaceutical

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Posted by V 2 years 3 months ago; via adage.com/article?article...

Michael Moore's upcoming 2007 documentary "Sicko" -- aimed at the $1.5 trillion healthcare and pharmaceutical industry -- has mobilized many companies within the medical industry to try to discredit Moore and the film.

Moore, who directed such documentaries as "Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine" -- which won an Academy Award -- and "Fahrenheit 9/11," says on his website that he asked the public to send him letters about their healthcare system experiences, and received more than 19,000 of them.

"To read about the misery people are...

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