his first movie his first documentary was a success and then he went on and on and on and the film that we will be suing tonight is know one of the most acclaimed documentaries of all time michael moore has not changed well a few pounds here and there but but michael moore has not changed his belief system since he started working with the unions and the factory workers and the retirees and he's with us today and we wanted to just hear from michael moore and then i would like to present the members of congress to bring you a brief greeting let's hear it from michael moore welcome issue and requesting that our fellow democrats state the specific positions of how we're going to bring health care to all americans and remove the profit incentive from health care it has to be removed and thank you for saying that over and over again and and all the rest of you for supporting congressman conyers bill h r six seven six and i've been traveling the country with this film it's going to open at albany new york  this friday open around the country a week from friday and june twenty ninth and i have been encouraging people to get behind h r six seven six and i believe that there is going to be a groundswell of support because you're right congressman stark the american public is ready for this they've been waiting for the opportunity this is an issue that affects all americans regardless of their political stripe when you get sick sickness doesn't know democrat or republican  it's not a political issue it shouldn't be made a partisan issue we should find common ground with people across the political spectrum because i can't imagine anyone in i would hope in this body at least that doesn't believe that every american has a human right that when they get sick they have a right to go to a doctor and not have to worry about whether or not they can afford it so i i so appreciate the work that you are all doing with this bill and i ask americans across the country who are asking me what can we do this is something you can do right to your member of congress and say get behind h r six seven six  you know we live in a great country our fellow americans we know this they have a good heart is a good soul they know right from wrong and eventually when they're told the truth they do the right thing and what's hard is getting the truth out there fourteen years ago mrs clinton tried to do something she stuck her neck out there to to at least put the issue on the table it wasn't necessarily maybe the right plan you know we can have that deba had but but what happened was is because of what happened to her in those fourteen years few political leaders have been willing to step forward and say we need to address this because they were afraid of the same thing happening to them and so while they were afraid to have the courage of their convictions the american people suffered for fourteen years but what's happened is that the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry through their tactics through their price gouging through their denial of care to our fellow americans they've done the organizing for us they've turned the american people against the private health insurance companies and you know the very first word the very first american word actually the very first american word was we the first word in our founding document we the people not me the people and and this will only work when we realize that we have to operate from the way that we're all in the same boat that we sink or swim together and when we have companies pharmaceutical companies the greed that's involved  here these companies need to be regulated like a public utility they shouldn't be allowed to get away with what they get away with and we just give you a just a little success that thirty years ago there were twenty five pharmaceutical companies working on cures and vaccines twenty five of them today there are five now why is that because they realize there's no profit in finding a cure for something because once you cure the disease you can sell pills for the disease for the next thirty to forty years for that individual and so they stop working on the very things that would lead us to a place where we wouldn't have various diseases or illnesses and we've stopped working on the environmental factors that cause a lot of these diseases i llnesses and as a result now we have a country that's told every night on the nightly news because that's were right virtually all the ads on the nightly news are pharmaceutical ads they're being told to take this pill that pill whatever all all meant to line the pockets of of the halliburton's of the pharmaceutical industry